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Following the investigators tracking down the criminals who steal £1.25 billion every year from the NHS - from organised crime rings to NHS staff themselves.
2020
The Fraud Squad are on the hunt for a manager who treats the NHS like a cash machine, and an organised crime gang try to swindle the public purse of £13 million.
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.
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 gang who prey on the innocent in order to launder their dirty cash.
Fraud investigators hunt a reckless hoaxer faking accidents for fun, a high-living couple claiming benefits and dodging hundreds of thousands in tax, and a random roadside stop-and-search unearths the UK’s biggest ever Blue Badge fraud.
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 Clinton. Plus the race to stop £17 million of unpaid tax going up in smoke.
Investigators uncover a senior manager taking a gamble with an NHS credit card, and an exotic dance troupe boss goes AWOL after stripping the public purse of thousands of pounds. Plus the cowards targeting vulnerable elderly women for their life savings.
The Fraud Squad investigates a nurse ripping off thousands of pound from the NHS, a lying and cheating boss of a recycling company who helped himself to £2 million of government cash, and a millionaire racing driver who was happy to let the public purse pay for his hobby.
The fraud investigators chase a GP surgery manager who has blown NHS cash at the bookies and a serial insurance fraudster who tried to cash in on horrific terror attacks. Plus a former taxman with a scam to empty our public purse of nearly £7 million.
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-and-son duo living a life of luxury paid for by the public purse.
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 across. Plus a preacher turns prisoner when he is caught with his hand in the public purse.
2021
A council worker splurges £200,000 of public funds on horse riding and holidays, and a woman pretends she can barely move in order to pocket half a million pounds in benefits.
A conwoman brazenly steals £1 million from the public purse to fund her lavish lifestyle, and a trusted parish clerk secretly transfers the entire council budget to himself.
A supposedly trustworthy local pharmacist doctors prescriptions to earn himself £76,000, and corrupt council workers steal £1 million of public cash in a sophisticated inside job.
An amateur actress puts on a performance to evade justice for a showstopping £750,000 fraud, and investigators hunt down a school business manager who has embezzled over £200,000.
Hidden cameras expose a web of deceit from a greedy council tenant. And police foil a criminal gang running a sophisticated £8 million fake transport ticket fraud.
2022
School staff steal £500,000 to fund shopping sprees, a former NHS worker books flights and hotels worth thousands, and a benefits cheat is caught on camera, showing her prized dogs.
2019
Investigators are on the case of a hospital worker who has stolen vital surgical equipment worth over £1 million to sell online. Elsewhere, a student nurse swindles thousands of pounds from the NHS to splash out on plastic surgery and foreign holidays.
Investigators are on the trail of a global scam that has conned a series of NHS hospitals out of over £12.5 million, and a hospital cashier leads the high life - taking money meant for patients and putting it in to her own bank account.
2025
A hospital surgeon forges his own payslips to defraud the NHS out of £28,000. And the Environment Agency discovers toxic waste being dumped illegally in a quarry.
A family dodges £60,000 in income tax by turning their home into an illegal puppy farm. And the NHS boss who stole more than half a million pounds to fund a lavish lifestyle.
A senior doctor steals £70,000 from the NHS and colleagues, a family of fraudsters commit a decade of benefits fraud, and we join the fight against Blue Badge fraud.
A charity treasurer steals £270,000 to fund first-class travel, a finance manager goes on a spending spree with school money, and a council tenant illegally sublets his flat.
An NHS veteran steals equipment worth £15,000, a fraudster launches a campaign of malicious hoax 999 calls, and a benefits cheat claims to have 19 kids, ten of whom are blind!
HMRC track down the tax-dodging owner of BHS, fraudsters take advantage of the Grenfell Tower disaster to line their pockets, and an illegal dump costs the public purse thousands.
An academic steals millions meant for environmental research, a council fights back against fraudulent compensation claims, and a conman steals £10,000 meant for Covid-19 support.
A fraudster steals thousands of pounds from a children’s charity, a conman pretends to work for the NHS to fleece an elderly victim, and we join the fight against fly-tippers.
A fraudster hands out public contracts for kickbacks, a benefit cheat is caught out on camera, and a nurse scams thousands by working a second job while off sick.
HMRC face the biggest tax fraud investigation in UK history, with over a £100 million of public money on the line. An NHS manager abuses his position, authorising fake invoices for fictional work and pocketing the money, and a newlywed claims she has been jilted, to scam thousands in benefits.
An NHS accountant triples-up on lucrative jobs, HMRC busts the UK’s biggest counterfeit cigarette factory, and a benefits cheat is caught cleaning houses.
A locksmith sees pound signs when he is put in charge of a London hospital - and pockets nearly half a million pounds by overcharging the hospital for supplies. Elsewhere, an NHS manager dreams up a scam to siphon over £800,000 of NHS money into his own account.
Investigators uncover an abuse of public money when an NHS manager and his friends conspire to take a quarter of a million pounds - money meant to pay for dialysis equipment for patients. Plus the case of a man who for six years claimed the NHS pension of his dead aunt.
An accounts worker siphons £642,000 of NHS money into personal bank accounts, and a GP practice manager fakes emails to award himself a pay rise.
A trusted GP manager fiddles the books to pocket over £300,000 to fund her lavish spending. And the man who used the Covid pandemic to steal over £100,000 from the public purse.
A criminal gang set up ‘benefits factories’ to defraud UK taxpayers out of a whopping £50 million pounds. And a Swansea shop owner selling illegal vapes dodges £100,000 in tax.
A so-called green energy entrepreneur keeps breaching regulations, risking public health. And the family who made more than £200,000 selling fake goods and dodging import tax.
A council employee falsifies paperwork to steal over £900,000 from a local authority, and a small homewares store turns out to be the front for a huge counterfeit goods operation.
A routine welfare check on a disability claimant exposes fraud on a vast scale. And Trading Standards track down a criminal selling illegal tobacco and dodging £15,000 in tax.
A fire on an illegal waste site costs the taxpayer £500,000 and unearths £4 million in unpaid tax. And a chancer creates a fake identity to fraudulently claim £350,000 in benefits.
An accountant who funded a lavish lifestyle by cheating both private clients and the NHS out of over £1.3 million. And a benefits cheat who faked a disability to claim £71,000.
An audacious asbestos dump, endangering public health and the environment. And the shopfitter who dodged a whopping £2.5 million in tax to splurge on luxury cars and holidays.
2023
A removals boss films himself smuggling two million cigarettes into the UK, a fraudster poses as a single mum for £100,000 of benefits, and a GP practice manager defrauds the NHS.
A golf pro cheats the public purse out of thousands, a benefits cheat is caught performing as an Elvis impersonator, and a conman invents 188 fake kids to steal nearly £2 million.
A former Inland Revenue employee steals £7 million from HMRC, a woman claims a council flat while letting her home, and a benefit scrounger fakes single status to max her claims.
A gang steal £16 million smuggling booze into the UK, a fraudster ditches the crutches to walk home with his benefits, and a dentist fabricates patients to steal thousands.
A couple overcharge the council £400,000 in a care home staffing scam, a man illegally sublets his council house to his children, and a woman claiming she can’t work has two jobs.
A tax scam nets fraudsters over a million pounds, a benefits cheat feigns disability to steal thousands, and a council tenant tries to bag a house at a knockdown price.
A gang evade £3 million in tax by selling illicit petrol, a manager steals from his own taxpayer-funded charity to buy holidays, and a takeaway owner cheats HMRC out of £170,000.
Three brothers with a hospitality empire pinch £3 million of taxpayer cash, a GP steals more than £1 million, and a couple claiming disability benefits are filmed walking unaided.
A school mops up taxpayer cash pretending to employ 40 cleaners, a union rep rips off her members and the NHS, and a man is guilty of illegally dumping 14,000 tonnes of waste.
A dentist lets her unqualified boyfriend operate on her patients and pocket £120,000, a man sells dodgy student exemption certificates, and we look into the anatomy of an NHS fraud.
Michelle Ackerley
Self - Presenter
