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 callous couple overcharge the council £400,000 to fund their lavish lifestyle in a care home staffing scam, a man illegally sublets his council house to his adult children, who then try to buy it at a discount, and a fraudster who claimed over £35,000 in benefits because she was unable to work turns out to have not one but two jobs.
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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
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 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 5: Episode 6
A tax scam nets a pair of fraudsters over a million pounds to fund their luxurious lifestyle, a benefits cheat who claimed she couldn’t walk is so quick on her feet invest ...
01-04-2025
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 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
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
Series 5: Episode 2
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 ...
25-03-2025
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 1
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 ...
24-03-2025
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 10
A dastardly dentist lets her unqualified boyfriend operate on hundreds of unsuspecting patients and pocket £120,000 of taxpayer cash, a man abuses his position at a univer ...
05-04-2024
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
Series 4: Episode 6
A leading Cambridge academic steals nearly £3 million of government grants meant for environmental research, then smuggles bundles of cash out of the country inside empty ...
17-08-2022
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 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 4: Episode 7
Today, £50,000 of public money and charitable donations disappear from a charity set up to help sick children in need of life-changing operations. A callous conman imperso ...
18-08-2022
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 3
In this episode, a charity treasurer steals £270,000 of taxpayer’s money to fund first-class flights, luxury cruises and exotic holidays for himself and his friends, ...
11-08-2022
BBC 1
The Hunt: Episode 7
The Fraud Squad investigates a nurse ripping off thousands of pounds from the NHS, a lying and cheating boss of a recycling company who helped himself to £2 million of gov ...
24-05-2021
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 4: Episode 4
In this episode, a trusted NHS veteran steals equipment worth over £15,000 and then sells it online. A callous fraudster launches a malicious campaign of hoax 999 calls &n ...
15-08-2022
BBC 1
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