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 investigators can barely keep up, and a council tenant fakes his right-to-buy application to dishonestly bag a discount worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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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
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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
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 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 1: Episode 4
Investigators uncover an abuse of public money when an NHS manager and his friends conspire to take a quarter of a million pounds - money meant to pay for dialysis equipment for ...
15-07-2019
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 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 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
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
The Hunt: Episode 6
Investigators uncover a senior manager taking a gamble with an NHS credit card, and an exotic dance troupe boss goes AWOL after stripping the public purse of thousands of pounds ...
04-03-2022
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 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 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