
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Series 4: Episode 9
HMRC face the biggest tax fraud investigation in UK history, with over a £100 million of public money on the line. An NHS manager abuses his position, authorising fake inv ...
22-08-2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 6
Police go undercover in a game of cat and mouse with a group of security guards suspected of stealing over £200,000 in cash from the parking meters in a hospital car park, ...
05-06-2023
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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 1: Episode 1
New series following the work of investigators in the NHS Counter Fraud Authority, which tracks down the criminals who steal £1.25 billion every year from the NHS.\n\nIn t ...
28-05-2021
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Series 4: Episode 5
HMRC make the headlines as they track down the tax-dodging millionaire owner of BHS, Dominic Chappell. Callous fraudsters use the Grenfell Tower disaster as an opportunity to st ...
16-08-2022
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Series 5: Episode 3
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, po ...
26-03-2025
BBC 1