
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 removals company boss films himself on his own dashcam trying to smuggle two million cigarettes into the UK, and a GP practice manager fakes her hours and overtime to steal more than £40,000 from the NHS.
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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 5: Episode 9
A school mops up £2 million of taxpayers’ cash after pretending to employ nearly 40 cleaners to bag their benefits, a union rep rips off the NHS and her members to t ...
04-04-2025
BBC 1
The Hunt: Episode 3
Join the UK’s fraud specialists as they investigate a wealthy manager taking the NHS for a ride, a million-pound tax fraudster claiming to be a spy, and an organised crime ...
02-03-2022
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 10
An NHS accountant takes lucrative jobs at three different hospitals at the same time while also scamming dozens of innocent victims out of tens of thousands of pounds. HMRC bust ...
23-08-2022
BBC 1
Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 3
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 trusted local pharma ...
31-05-2023
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
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
BBC 1
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
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 3: Episode 5
Hidden cameras, set up under the cover of darkness, expose a web of deceit from a greedy council tenant. Police mount a sophisticated surveillance operation to foil a criminal g ...
17-05-2021
BBC 1
Series 1: Episode 2
Investigators are on the trail of a global scam that has conned a series of NHS hospitals out of over £12.5 million, and a hospital cashier leads the high life - taking mo ...
21-03-2019
BBC 1