Fraud Squad

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.

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 of taxpayer's money to fund first-class flights, luxury cruises and exotic holidays for himself and his friends, and a school finance manager abuses the emergency credit card to make hundreds of online purchases. Also, a council tenant rents out his flat while ...

A trusted NHS veteran steals equipment worth over £15,000 and then sells it online. A callous fraudster launches a malicious campaign of hoax 999 calls, costing the cash-strapped police force thousands of pounds and putting people's lives at risk. Also, a serial liar makes bogus benefits claims f...

HMRC make the headlines as they track down the tax-dodging millionaire owner of BHS, Dominic Chappelle. Callous fraudsters use the Grenfell Tower disaster as an opportunity to steal tens of thousands from a council trying to help residents in desperate need, and a farmer uses the countryside as a...

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 chocolate boxes. A local council fights back against fraudulent compensation claims that could cripple its budget, and a fraud...

Today, £50,000 of public money and charitable donations disappear from a charity set up to help sick children in need of life-changing operations. A callous conman impersonates an NHS worker to fleece an elderly victim over a fake Covid-19 vaccination, and we join the fight against illegal fly-ti...

A fraudster hands out public sector contracts worth over £1 million in return for kickbacks from his cronies, a mum is caught out fraudulently claiming disability benefits for herself and her two sons when they are caught bragging about their gym routine online, and one of the UK's highest-paid n...

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 takes lucrative jobs at three different hospitals while also scamming dozens of innocent victims out of tens of thousands of pounds. HMRC busts the country's biggest counterfeit cigarette factory that could cost the public purse millions in lost tax revenue, and a benefits cheat...