
Series following the dedicated fraud-fighters pursuing the criminals who steal £40 billion a year from the UK’s public purse. In this episode, a personal betrayal at the heart of a council sees a trusted colleague steal over £200,000 to pay for luxury holidays and a very expensive hobby, and investigators expose the lies of a man who assumed a stolen identity in order to fraudulently claim benefits for almost two decades.
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Series 6: Episode 10
Featuring the case of a shopfitter who dodged a whopping £2.5 million in tax to splurge on luxury cars and holidays. HMRC first started investigating after a routine inspe ...
25-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 9
An accountant takes on three different full-time jobs with the NHS – and manages to get paid for all of them, even though he’s barely carrying out the work of one. E ...
24-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 8
When a fire breaks out on an illegal waste site, it costs the taxpayer £500,000 in clean-up costs and unearths an operation responsible for a staggering £4 million i ...
23-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 7
A routine welfare check on a disability claimant exposes deception committed on a vast scale. The fraudster claimed high levels of benefits for 18 years, saying he was paraplegi ...
22-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 6
A trusted member of the finance team in a local authority dupes his colleagues into signing off fake paperwork so that he can transfer hundreds of thousands of pounds of public ...
21-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 5
The Environment Agency gets called in when a waste site flouts the rules and local residents start complaining. The facility is supposed to be a plastics recycling plant, but lo ...
18-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 4
The story of Britain’s biggest ever benefit fraud and how the fraudsters were brought to justice. It all started when staff at the Department for Work and Pensions noticed ...
17-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 3
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority investigates a shocking case of a trusted GP practice manager who fiddled the books for years to siphon hundreds of thousands of pounds into her ...
16-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 2
Trading Standards uncover a massive illegal puppy farm where animals are being used to make tens of thousands of pounds, not a penny of which is declared to the tax authorities. ...
15-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 1
Documentary series following the dedicated fraud fighters pursuing the criminals who steal billions of pounds a year from the public purse. \n\nIn this episode, the Environment ...
14-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 1
A council worker steals £200,000 of public funds to pay for luxury holidays and a very expensive hobby. A woman who claims she can barely move, to pocket half a million po ...
24-08-2022
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 7
An organised crime group are fuelled by greed as they evade over £3 million in tax by selling illicit petrol to fund their lives of luxury, a manager steals from his own t ...
02-04-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 7
A routine welfare check on a disability claimant exposes deception committed on a vast scale. The fraudster claimed high levels of benefits for 18 years, saying he was paraplegi ...
22-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 2
In this episode, a trusted senior doctor abuses his position to steal nearly £70,000 from the NHS and his colleagues, and a family callously defrauds the benefits system f ...
10-08-2022
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 9
An accountant takes on three different full-time jobs with the NHS – and manages to get paid for all of them, even though he’s barely carrying out the work of one. E ...
24-07-2025
BBC 1
The Hunt: Episode 4
Fraud investigators hunt a reckless hoaxer faking accidents for fun, a high-living couple claiming benefits and dodging hundreds of thousands in tax, and a random roadside stop- ...
03-03-2022
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 8
A fraudster hands out public sector contracts worth over £1 million in return for kickbacks from his cronies, a mum is caught out fraudulently claiming disability benefits ...
19-08-2022
BBC 1
The Hunt: Episode 2
The hunt is on for a ruthless fantasist who has defrauded our NHS of thousands, and a cold-hearted insurance cheat exploits the horror of the Manchester bombing.
01-03-2022
BBC 1
Series 1: Episode 5
Investigators crack the case of an accounts worker at the Royal Marsden cancer hospital who is siphoning off £642,000 of NHS money into personal bank accounts belonging to ...
11-04-2019
BBC 1
Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 8
Fraud investigators are relentless in pursuit of a school business manager who has stolen nearly a quarter of a million pounds from under the headteacher’s nose, and a cou ...
07-06-2023
BBC 1