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.

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 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.