
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.
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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
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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
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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 5: Episode 8
Three brothers who run a hospitality empire decide to have their cake and eat it, at the taxpayer’s expense, to the tune of £3 million, all bets are off after invest ...
03-04-2025
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 4
Documentary series following the dedicated fraud-fighters pursuing the criminals who steal over £50 billion a year from the UK’s public purse.\n\nIn this episode, it ...
27-03-2025
BBC 1
The Hunt: Episode 1
Britain’s top investigators track down the fraudsters who are ripping off our NHS and stealing millions from the public purse. The Fraud Squad are on the hunt for a manage ...
11-05-2021
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 5
Documentary series following the dedicated fraud-fighters pursuing the criminals who steal over £50 billion a year from the UK’s public purse.\n\nIn this episode, a ...
28-03-2025
BBC 1
Series 1: Episode 3
A locksmith sees pound signs when he is put in charge of a London hospital - and pockets nearly half a million pounds by overcharging the hospital for supplies. Elsewhere, an NH ...
27-05-2021
BBC 1
The Hunt (shortened Versions): Episode 10
The Fraud Squad hunts down a serial scam artist who fakes disability to claim thousands in insurance payouts, and they uncover the most prolific dental fraudster ever.
02-10-2020
BBC 1
The Hunt (shortened Versions): Episode 9
The Fraud Squad hunt down an IT support worker shamelessly helping himself to hospital computers, and a duplicitous gang illegally fly-tip on an industrial scale.
01-10-2020
BBC 1
The Hunt (shortened Versions): Episode 8
Fraud investigators chase a GP surgery manager who has blown NHS cash at the bookies, and a serial insurance fraudster tries to cash in on horrific terror attacks.
30-09-2020
BBC 1
The Hunt (shortened Versions): Episode 7
The Fraud Squad investigates a nurse ripping off the NHS and the boss of a recycling company who helped himself to £2 million of public money.
29-09-2020
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 2
Investigators hunt down a brazen con woman who has been living the high life, ripping off multiple public bodies to the tune of £1 million. A trusted parish clerk’s ...
25-08-2022
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