Season 5
Channel Exclusive
Weekdays at 10:20, 17:25 & 21:20 from 17th June to 16th July

The hunt is on, as Michelle Ackerley enters the murky criminal world of fraud, following a crack team of investigators whose job is to catch and convict anyone with their hand in the UK’s public purse.

Featuring a fantasist fraudster leading a double life, a multi-million pound scam targeting the disabled, decadent dentists with lavish lifestyles,  and even a dishonest headmaster creating a sex dungeon using  school  funds - we uncover the biggest and most shocking cases of theft from public services including education, HMRC and the NHS. Joining the men and women on the front line fighting fraud, we see exactly what it takes to combat what is now the biggest crime in Britain, costing the country over £110 billion a year.

In the first episode of season five, a removals company boss films himself on his own dashcam trying to smuggle two million cigarettes into the UK; a fraudster who posed as a single mum bags £100,000 in benefits while living with her husband and enjoying five-star holidays, and a GP practice manager fakes her hours and overtime to steal more than £40,000 from the NHS.