Fraud Squad

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.