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 lorry loads of illegal waste are being delivered on a regular basis. Investigators decide to take a look, and what they find rings alarm bells – piles and piles of waste covering the site. Not only is it way beyond what’s permitted to be on a plastics recycling site, but more worryingly, it’s not being stored properly and there’s a genuine risk of it catching fire as a result. The Environment Agency takes swift action. \n\nIn a second case, Trading Standards are called in after a spate of fake Sky TV remote controls flood the local market. As officers start to investigate, they unearth a massive operation in fake goods being sold on online auction sites. As well as remote controls, the seller has electrical items and cosmetics up for sale, all pretending to be from well-known brands. It’s putting consumers at risk and running up a massive bill in unpaid tax – money which should be in the public purse.
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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 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 (shortened Versions): Episode 7
An amateur actress gives the performance of her life when she attempts to evade justice for a showstopping £750,000 fraud, and a council worker who used £80,000 of t ...
06-06-2023
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 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
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 3: Episode 4
An amateur actress gives the performance of her life when she attempts to evade justice for a showstopping £750,000 fraud. Counter-fraud investigators are relentless in pu ...
14-05-2021
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 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 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 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