Fraud Squad

08/08/2013
Radio Times. Review by: David Butcher

This is what large-scale financial fraud looks like: two men step off a plane at Heathrow expecting to transfer onto a flight to Spain. Instead they’re arrested by City of London Police, who suspect them of conning ordinary investors with a “boiler room” scam and laundering huge sums of money via Canada. We also see a dawn raid on a Croydon house where the kingpin of a huge mortgage scam lives. (“He thinks he’s bombproof,” says one of the cops). In fact, the suspect faints when the police come in, then looks mournful and befuddled, as if it’s all a mistake. It isn’t.

Though it’s hard to make fraud televisual (aerial shots of the City of London feature heavily here), the human stories are bizarre and gripping.

About this programme

Documentary following detectives from the Economic Crime Department of the City of London Police as they target money launderers. Two men who stole millions of pounds from hundreds of victims are caught at Heathrow Airport, while officers also track down the mastermind of a gang that took £7.8million from Britain's banks in a sophisticated mortgage fraud. Narrated by Richard Armitage.

Cast and crew

Cast

Narrator
Richard Armitage

Crew

Director
Matt Haan
Director
Will West
Executive Producer
Paul Hamann
Executive Producer
Tom Anstiss
Producer
Matt Haan

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