A trusted local pharmacist betrays his community by changing their prescriptions to earn himself a staggering £76,000. A gang of corrupt council workers are brought to justice after thieving £1 million of housing benefit in a highly sophisticated inside job, and investigators go after a mum who is stealing her daughter’s disability payments to fund a life of luxury.
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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
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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
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
BBC 1
The Hunt (shortened Versions): Episode 7
The Fraud Squad investigates a nurse ripping off the NHS and the boss of a recycling company who helped himself to £2 million of public money.
29-09-2020
BBC 1
Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 6
Police go undercover in a game of cat and mouse with a group of security guards suspected of stealing over £200,000 in cash from the parking meters in a hospital car park, ...
05-06-2023
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 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 5
HMRC make the headlines as they track down the tax-dodging millionaire owner of BHS, Dominic Chappell. Callous fraudsters use the Grenfell Tower disaster as an opportunity to st ...
16-08-2022
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 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 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 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