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 callous couple overcharge the council £400,000 to fund their lavish lifestyle in a care home staffing scam, a man illegally sublets his council house to his adult children, who then try to buy it at a discount, and a fraudster who claimed over £35,000 in benefits because she was unable to work turns out to have not one but two jobs.
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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
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 ...
04-04-2024
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 ...
03-04-2024
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 ...
02-04-2024
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 ...
01-04-2024
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 ...
29-03-2024
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 ...
28-03-2024
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 ...
27-03-2024
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 ...
26-03-2024
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 ...
25-03-2024
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 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 ...
03-04-2024
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 ...
04-04-2024
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 ...
29-03-2024
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 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
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
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 (shortened Versions): Episode 2
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 painstaking seven-ye ...
30-05-2023
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 2
In this episode, a trusted senior doctor abuses his position to steal nearly £70,000 from the NHS and his colleagues, and a family callously defrauds the benefits system f ...
10-08-2022
BBC 1