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 personal betrayal at the heart of a council sees a trusted colleague steal over £200,000 to pay for luxury holidays and a very expensive hobby, and investigators expose the lies of a man who assumed a stolen identity in order to fraudulently claim benefits for almost two decades.
Source: 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 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
The Hunt (shortened Versions): Episode 9
The Fraud Squad hunt down an IT support worker shamelessly helping himself to hospital computers, and a duplicitous gang illegally fly-tip on an industrial scale.
01-10-2020
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
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
Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 4
Series following the dedicated fraud-fighters pursuing the criminals who steal £40 billion a year from the UK’s public purse. In this episode, police mount a sophist ...
01-06-2023
BBC 1
The Hunt: Episode 5
Fraud specialists investigate a devious dentist who fleeces the NHS to pay for holiday homes and luxury cars, and a con artist making thousands by pretending to know Hilary Clin ...
20-05-2021
BBC 1
Series 1: Episode 5
Investigators crack the case of an accounts worker at the Royal Marsden cancer hospital who is siphoning off £642,000 of NHS money into personal bank accounts belonging to ...
11-04-2019
BBC 1
The Hunt: Episode 9
The Fraud Squad hunt down an IT support worker shamelessly helping himself to hospital computers, a gang illegally fly-tipping on an industrial scale, and a duplicitous father-a ...
25-05-2021
BBC 1
Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 5
Series following the dedicated fraud-fighters pursuing the criminals who steal £40 billion a year from the UK’s public purse. In this episode, investigators hunt dow ...
02-06-2023
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 1
Documentary series following the dedicated fraud-fighters pursuing the criminals who steal £40 billion a year from the UK’s public purse.\n\nIn this episode, a head ...
09-08-2022
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