
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. Each is well paid in its own right, and he hasn’t declared that he’s working three at the same time. In fact, he’s barely working one, as he’s using the money to fund a luxury lifestyle of London hotels and extravagant days out. Investigators also discover the accountant has been taking on private clients and draining their bank accounts into his own. He’s even accused of romance fraud. \n\nIn another case, undercover work exposes a benefit cheat’s lies. A woman has been claiming disability living allowance because she says she has multiple sclerosis. But after a tip-off, investigators from the Department for Work and Pensions launch a surveillance operation. She’s seen walking normally with no apparent disability. And her social media account shows a video of her on a zip wire. Investigators call her in for questioning.
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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
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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
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 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 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
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 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 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 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
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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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The Hunt: Episode 10
The Fraud Squad hunts down a serial scam artist faking disability to claim thousands in insurance payouts, and uncovers the most prolific dental fraudster they've ever come acro ...
26-05-2021
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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