0:00:03 > 0:00:05He's carrying fishing rods on his back.
0:00:05 > 0:00:07Yeah, I've got him, Deb.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10There's absolutely nothing wrong with him, is there?
0:00:10 > 0:00:12No.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15He's fit and well but claiming disability.
0:00:15 > 0:00:21Benefit fraud costs the British taxpayer £1.6 billion a year.
0:00:21 > 0:00:22My name is Richard Bilton,
0:00:22 > 0:00:25and I've spent the last five years
0:00:25 > 0:00:28following benefit fraud investigators...
0:00:28 > 0:00:31We're about to catch criminals. I love it.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33..and the suspects they're after.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35I'm not guilty of anything.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37What they're saying I'm guilty of, I'm not.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Yeah, under the underpass.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42In this episode, on the hunt for a benefit cheat
0:00:42 > 0:00:44with multiple identities.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Are you Angel Duffy?
0:00:46 > 0:00:49- No.- Are you Angel Jackson?
0:00:49 > 0:00:51If you look at this particular case,
0:00:51 > 0:00:55it's really hard to understand who this person actually is.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58We track down suspects involved in a new kind of fraud...
0:00:59 > 0:01:01I just want to have a quick word with you about your benefits
0:01:01 > 0:01:03cos you get about a bit, don't you?
0:01:03 > 0:01:07You claim here in Belgium and you claim in the UK.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09How is that possible?
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Do you want to see a fake boarding pass?
0:01:12 > 0:01:17..and the smuggler who can get in and out of airports undetected.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19They must think I'm Mickey Bin Laden,
0:01:19 > 0:01:20not Mickey Pitt.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30This programme contains some strong language.
0:01:33 > 0:01:34It's five in the morning in Croydon
0:01:34 > 0:01:36and officers from the council's fraud squad
0:01:36 > 0:01:38are preparing for an arrest.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40I've brought in biscuits.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43- Biscuits!- I thought that we're going to need something,
0:01:43 > 0:01:46so I've got us some giant salt pretzels.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49Got biscuits
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and we can share a banana.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Today, we're quite excited
0:01:54 > 0:01:56because we are actually going to get to meet
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Angel Jackson, or Angel Duffy.
0:02:01 > 0:02:06Andrea Cordrey and Zoe Neal usually handle petty fraudsters
0:02:06 > 0:02:10fiddling the system, but tonight's target has two identities.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13As Angel Jackson, she's a disabled, single mum,
0:02:13 > 0:02:16who gets her rent paid by the council.
0:02:16 > 0:02:21But as Angel Duffy, she's fit and well and owns two properties.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Investigators think she's been using the two IDs
0:02:24 > 0:02:29to fraudulently claim over £100,000 in housing benefit.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33At this stage it just feels like we're opening up Pandora's Box.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35We just don't know where it's going to end.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43The plan is to arrest Angel
0:02:43 > 0:02:45and search both her homes for evidence of her crime.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50What we normally find is a stash of porn,
0:02:50 > 0:02:51a little stash of drugs
0:02:51 > 0:02:53and lots and lots and lots of correspondence.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55The last few searches I've done,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58they've all seemed to have a lot of religious texts.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Copies of the Bible, religious pictures.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04I don't quite know why, because it does say in the Bible,
0:03:04 > 0:03:05"Thou shalt not steal."
0:03:08 > 0:03:11The team isn't sure which property Angel lives in.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15They're hoping this dawn raid will catch her by surprise.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Hello. It's the police, do you mind letting us into the block, please?
0:03:50 > 0:03:54That's her, isn't it? I've got the picture downstairs in the car.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57There are similarities in the way she looks to Mrs Duffy
0:03:57 > 0:04:02and I've got a photograph of her, so I just want to go and get it.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06It's just scary.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11Nobody's dead. How long have you been living here, madam?
0:04:11 > 0:04:12- How long...- A couple of weeks.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13A couple of weeks?
0:04:13 > 0:04:17Have you got any other forms of ID, madam, like a passport or anything?
0:04:17 > 0:04:20Not here, not at the moment.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22At the moment, the problem is, we think you might be Mrs Duffy.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28I know, but it's very easy, madam, to apply for a driving licence.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32This is a photo we've got of Mrs Duffy.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Yeah, yes, that's her.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- That's her?- Yes.- Looks very similar to yourself, madam.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Let's hold those two photos up to one another.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44You must be sisters?
0:04:44 > 0:04:45Yes, I said that, yeah.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48Otherwise, she wouldn't let me stay here for free like that,
0:04:48 > 0:04:49she would not.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51That's why I even told you, that if you want,
0:04:51 > 0:04:53I can organise for her to come.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56We do believe that, you know, you are Mrs Duffy.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58So listen to my colleague.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02I'm arresting you on suspicion of fraud by false representation.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04My dear, it's just not me.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Do you want to get yourself dressed, all right?
0:05:06 > 0:05:07I'm getting out of here now?
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Yeah, you're going to come with us to the police station, madam.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12So, do you want to get yourself dressed now?
0:05:16 > 0:05:19With the suspect under arrest, the search can begin.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23Right.
0:05:30 > 0:05:36Correspondence to an Angel Jackson and an Angel Duffy.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40This indicates she's spent over £2,000 on carpets.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44I think if she's been on benefit for years, how can she afford that?
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Oooh!
0:05:46 > 0:05:49English, Irish and Ghanaian passports are found.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52So are numerous bank cards and mobile phones.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55Oh, wait up.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Oh!
0:05:59 > 0:06:01All 50s.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09They also find keys for the other property she owns nearby.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17Ah, they're in, the key worked.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21From outside, it looks like an average home.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23It's a bit different on the inside.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Now, this is a telly!
0:06:32 > 0:06:35- What is that?- It's a bar.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38A bar, yeah. There'll be alcohol on the back shelves.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43That's definitely the lady we've got.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47I'm just thinking about, when we went in, she was bold-faced...
0:06:49 > 0:06:51..very seasoned liar.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53- It sounded real. - Mm?- It sounded real.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Yeah.
0:06:55 > 0:06:59They appear to have caught a sophisticated fraudster
0:06:59 > 0:07:01working the system.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05But first, they've got to make sure they've arrested the right woman.
0:07:08 > 0:07:13We lose £1.6 billion a year through benefit fraud,
0:07:13 > 0:07:17but that figure is dwarfed by what's stolen from the taxman.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Nearly £16 billion a year,
0:07:20 > 0:07:23and the frauds are getting increasingly inventive.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Some cigarettes, please.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- Nice one.- £9?
0:07:34 > 0:07:37You are the most expensive shop in London for cigarettes.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39No, man. No, no, man, no.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40- You are.- No.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Mickey Pitt is a smuggler
0:07:42 > 0:07:46who likes to think he offers hard-up smokers a valuable service.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48£9, £6.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Where do you want to come?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52All I was doing was facilitating people
0:07:52 > 0:07:54to purchase these at a cheaper price.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58That's what I got sent to prison for.
0:07:58 > 0:08:0270% of the price of a packet of cigarettes comes from taxes
0:08:02 > 0:08:04and Mickey has made a lot of money
0:08:04 > 0:08:08flogging duty-free cigs on the black market.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10I didn't choose fraud, it just evolved.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13It just... I don't know,
0:08:13 > 0:08:17I'd like to have been a brain surgeon or a pilot, you know?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19I missed those opportunities.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22I don't pillage and plunder,
0:08:22 > 0:08:28but, you know, I take, perhaps, things that are not lawfully mine.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Like the duty that I've evaded.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33But, you know,
0:08:33 > 0:08:35I can live with that.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41The type of people that buy my cigarettes know what I've done,
0:08:41 > 0:08:42and they'll say, "Good on you."
0:08:44 > 0:08:47But Mickey's no ordinary cigarette smuggler.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49He's the mastermind of an operation
0:08:49 > 0:08:52that used fake boarding passes
0:08:52 > 0:08:54to get in and out of airports undetected.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59- So, Michael Pitt?- He's an inveterate cigarette smuggler.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03He was prosecuted by the Met police back in 2006.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06He then learned to evolve his operation.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10I've come to the headquarters of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs,
0:09:10 > 0:09:15or HMRC, to meet officers who are investigating Pitt.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18When he was arrested, he couldn't help boasting about his scam.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31He's telling all that to you?
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Yeah, and it's fair to say he was remanded in custody.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37When he asked the sergeant why, the sergeant said,
0:09:37 > 0:09:40"Well, you've just told the officer you can go anywhere you want."
0:09:40 > 0:09:42He was remanded in custody.
0:09:42 > 0:09:43Isn't it sort of terrifying
0:09:43 > 0:09:47that you can produce counterfeit boarding passes?
0:09:47 > 0:09:50The thought behind that is really quite worrying, isn't it?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52It was really surprising to us,
0:09:52 > 0:09:54particularly the extent to which they went
0:09:54 > 0:09:58to ultimately produce boarding cards for the whole of the country.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
0:10:03 > 0:10:05started investigating Pitt
0:10:05 > 0:10:09after two of his men were caught leaving Gatwick with suitcases
0:10:09 > 0:10:12stuffed with thousands of tax-free cigarettes.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15They'd somehow managed to purchase them from the duty-free shop
0:10:15 > 0:10:18without having any form of legitimate travel.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22The UK Border Agency managed to seize a forged boarding card
0:10:22 > 0:10:25off one of them. So we were starting to put together a picture
0:10:25 > 0:10:26of how they operated.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Two days later, at Stansted Airport,
0:10:29 > 0:10:33another member of Mickey's gang was caught with a fake boarding pass.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36Then it became apparent that this is a larger scale.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Not only have we now got two airports,
0:10:38 > 0:10:42we have more people doing this.
0:10:42 > 0:10:43Mickey Pitt's smuggling operation
0:10:43 > 0:10:47was soon unfolding in front of their eyes.
0:10:47 > 0:10:48This was almost a machine,
0:10:48 > 0:10:53the way they, on a daily basis, they were going out, going to airports,
0:10:53 > 0:10:55coming back with the cigarettes.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58They were then going off to be sold.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00The next day, they were back at it again.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05This is Pitt looking at a whole selection
0:11:05 > 0:11:07of different boarding cards.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10The gang didn't even have to take flights.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13They'd also worked out how to use the fake passes
0:11:13 > 0:11:16to get out of the airport undetected.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18They certainly knew the rat runs, they knew how to get in,
0:11:18 > 0:11:20they knew how to get out.
0:11:20 > 0:11:24They knew the airports better, in some cases, than our own officers.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29Pitt's block of flats soon came under 24-hour surveillance.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37This is a scene with a very large, wheeled suitcase.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39And these bags are full of cigarettes?
0:11:39 > 0:11:40Both are full of cigarettes.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44And then, later that day, onward distributors came
0:11:44 > 0:11:46and collected the cigarettes.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57Officers believed the gang smuggled more than 2 million cigarettes,
0:11:57 > 0:12:00earning themselves hundreds of thousands of pounds.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05With the evidence on camera, Pitt's gang was arrested.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22I thought, "What a cocky individual."
0:12:25 > 0:12:27It was tantamount to a confession, actually,
0:12:27 > 0:12:30and it was something we served in evidence.
0:12:37 > 0:12:42I was pissed off, I was angry and I said to them, you know,
0:12:42 > 0:12:46basically, you're arseholes at your job.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49But, it didn't do me no favours.
0:12:50 > 0:12:51Didn't do me no favours.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Mickey got five years.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58He's now out of prison, but he's not out of trouble.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02He faces being sent back to prison because of the same crime.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04You want to see a fake boarding pass?
0:13:04 > 0:13:07You wanted to see a fake boarding pass, didn't you?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09For all intents and purposes,
0:13:09 > 0:13:11it doesn't look no different from a real one.
0:13:11 > 0:13:16You take that to the airport, present it to the security man.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20He then scans that bar code, it beeps, and lets you in.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23What was it like discovering you could do this?
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Like discovering the Holy Grail.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Mickey says producing the passes was simple -
0:13:28 > 0:13:30all he needed was a computer,
0:13:30 > 0:13:33a specialist programme and a printer.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36I mean, it's a bit embarrassing that I was able to do it with such ease,
0:13:36 > 0:13:39you know what I mean? I would just manufacture the boarding pass,
0:13:39 > 0:13:41give it to somebody, they go to the airport,
0:13:41 > 0:13:43purchase cigarettes and walk out.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45That easy.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Unfortunately for Mickey,
0:13:47 > 0:13:50handling the fallout hasn't been so straightforward.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54I'm only allowed, in my possession at any one time, 200 cigarettes,
0:13:54 > 0:13:5650 cigars and 100 cigarillos.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00What the fuck is a cigarillo?
0:14:00 > 0:14:04He's been placed on a Serious Crime Prevention Order.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07If he breaks any of its conditions, he'll be sent back to jail.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10I'm not allowed to go to any airports.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13I'm only allowed one mobile telephone, I must get it registered.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16I'm only allowed to have £1,000 in cash at any one time.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18I should be so lucky.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21They wanted to ban me from telephone boxes for five years.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23They must think I'm Mickey Bin Laden,
0:14:23 > 0:14:25not Mickey Pitt.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29But his biggest problem comes from something investigators found
0:14:29 > 0:14:31when they searched his flat.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33Where did they find the hard drive?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- In my kitchen. - Can you show us? Show us.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41It's a little cupboard here, look.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46That's it in there, look, a little compartment.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53This hiding place was found to contain £3,000 in cash
0:14:53 > 0:14:57and a hard drive which was taken away for analysis.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00We were absolutely amazed at the complexity of it all.
0:15:00 > 0:15:05I think in total, there were nearly 7,000 boarding passes.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09It's a digital fingerprint that the taxman's used
0:15:09 > 0:15:12to try and work out how much Pitt made from his scam.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17The benefit that he's got from his crime will be recovered by HMRC
0:15:17 > 0:15:19under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22HMRC is now taking Mickey to court
0:15:22 > 0:15:25to try and force him to pay back the money he stole.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27They will say to Pitt, in effect, that he has to,
0:15:27 > 0:15:31he's benefited from a set amount, he pays that money back to us,
0:15:31 > 0:15:35or he serves a default sentence, which is a further prison sentence.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39You go to prison,
0:15:39 > 0:15:42you come out, you're on licence and you have to tread carefully,
0:15:42 > 0:15:44and you kind of live with that,
0:15:44 > 0:15:48but the confiscation order, it's bollocks.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50I don't know what to think at this moment in time.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52You know?
0:15:52 > 0:15:54I feel punch drunk.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Like I've been bashed around the ring by Mike Tyson.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00You know? That's how I feel.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04The SMS is, don't fuck with these people.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14But for every fraudster caught,
0:16:14 > 0:16:18there are plenty more trying to exploit gaps in the system.
0:16:18 > 0:16:23In 2012, I caught up with investigators in Hillingdon.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26Do you know if you can put in a number?
0:16:28 > 0:16:32Just type in 51. Double-click.
0:16:32 > 0:16:33There.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37Kiri and Yvonne are investigating a new kind of fraud
0:16:37 > 0:16:38found in the borough -
0:16:38 > 0:16:42people who fraudulently claim benefits here and abroad.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44They call it double dipping.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48So that's the address we are paying housing and council tax benefit.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53- That's the application from the DWP. - Oh, right, yeah.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55In this case, they've got information
0:16:55 > 0:16:58that their suspect is also claiming in Belgium.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02This is the property in Antwerp, according to this information.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06The claimant's spouse owns this property.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09To arrest him, they need to make sure he is in Hillingdon
0:17:09 > 0:17:11and Google Maps has provided a clue.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14That looks like a green coloured car.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Yes, a metallic green.
0:17:15 > 0:17:16Metallic green, yeah.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19The council has had an anonymous tip-off
0:17:19 > 0:17:22that the suspect drives a people carrier with a Belgian numberplate.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25When we looked at this property address in Belgium,
0:17:25 > 0:17:28we can see there's a people carrier outside,
0:17:28 > 0:17:30so that's quite interesting for us.
0:17:30 > 0:17:31When we do visit the address,
0:17:31 > 0:17:34we will be looking out for a people carrier here.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37They've got the evidence they need to arrest their man,
0:17:37 > 0:17:39they just need to make sure he's in the country,
0:17:39 > 0:17:41so they're going to see if they can spot
0:17:41 > 0:17:44a green people carrier outside his house.
0:17:44 > 0:17:45- This is the road.- Right.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Yes, I can see no...
0:17:48 > 0:17:51It's this one with the tree, the big tree.
0:17:51 > 0:17:52There's the Volkswagen.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56Right. That looks like a bottle green colour.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59That has a foreign numberplate.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01I have the number of the police team
0:18:01 > 0:18:05and I will notify them that we're parked here and waiting for them.
0:18:05 > 0:18:06Yeah.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14The man is taken away for questioning.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21These arrests are now becoming a regular event.
0:18:27 > 0:18:28Hello, sir.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36In a short time, Kiri has built up a long list of suspects
0:18:36 > 0:18:40thought to be double dipping, and he's worried about the scale.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44I don't know how far it has gone into our system,
0:18:44 > 0:18:48but it is, it is easy, and there is no way of preventing it
0:18:48 > 0:18:51unless we get in touch with them countries.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55This box is full of application forms.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Almost all of them double dipping cases.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02Denmark, Sweden, Norway.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Most of the Scandinavian countries.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06They're all being used to claim benefits.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08The scenario is the same.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11When someone claims that the only benefit they are receiving is
0:19:11 > 0:19:13from the Department for Work and Pensions
0:19:13 > 0:19:14and housing benefits
0:19:14 > 0:19:17and when the bank accounts or bank transactions
0:19:17 > 0:19:21show clearly there is more money going into the bank accounts,
0:19:21 > 0:19:23then questions need to be asked.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25So it's a really significant problem you're facing?
0:19:25 > 0:19:27It is, yes, yes.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39When you're coming back, you know it's raining today,
0:19:39 > 0:19:42do you want some trainers or something that will cover?
0:19:42 > 0:19:43- Yes.- Yeah?
0:19:45 > 0:19:48Back in Croydon, the team have finished their search,
0:19:48 > 0:19:52and they are now taking their suspect to the police station
0:19:52 > 0:19:54to try and identify who she really is.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01They think she's an identity fraudster
0:20:01 > 0:20:05known either as Angel Jackson or Angel Duffy.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08It's basically based on the evidence, and the evidence,
0:20:08 > 0:20:15in my opinion, suggests that the lady we have got is Angel Duffy.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Okey dokey, right,
0:20:21 > 0:20:22can I ask you your full name, please?
0:20:27 > 0:20:29She insists she's Angel's half sister.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35And she's got a British passport to prove it,
0:20:35 > 0:20:37but it's one of three found in the flat
0:20:37 > 0:20:38they want to question her about.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42This is this... Your passport in the name of Anderson,
0:20:42 > 0:20:46the one that you say is yours, there's a photograph
0:20:46 > 0:20:49of a lady in that passport
0:20:49 > 0:20:51and I'm going to put all three side-by-side...
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Would you say that those three people are the same person?
0:20:59 > 0:21:01You wouldn't?
0:21:02 > 0:21:06Diva's British passport turns out to be real,
0:21:06 > 0:21:08and they have to release her on bail
0:21:08 > 0:21:10while they investigate further.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16We've got three passports in three different nationalities,
0:21:16 > 0:21:18three different names.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19Ghanaian... In the name of Duffy.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Irish in the name of Jackson.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24- Jackson.- And UK in the name of Anderson.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28- I'm 100% sure...- 100% sure!
0:21:28 > 0:21:31..it's the same person.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34We're talking about someone who looks exactly the same.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Paul O'Rourke from the Department of Work and Pensions
0:21:37 > 0:21:38has joined the team.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41At the end of the day, it doesn't actually matter who she is
0:21:41 > 0:21:43or what she calls herself, she can call herself Minnie Mouse,
0:21:43 > 0:21:45it doesn't actually matter.
0:21:45 > 0:21:46We just need to be able to prove
0:21:46 > 0:21:49that the identities are all the same person,
0:21:49 > 0:21:51that's really what it's about.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54But proving that won't be easy.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57All of her documentation appears genuine.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00This lady has three separate National Insurance numbers.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05That should not be possible, but she does have it.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09It's not something that even the average Joe Criminal
0:22:09 > 0:22:11would know how to do.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14Then there's the driving licences, the bank cards,
0:22:14 > 0:22:16the NHS documents, and all that money found
0:22:16 > 0:22:21at the bottom of her wardrobe, £22,000.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24What we're looking at is organised fraud.
0:22:24 > 0:22:30This lady has set out to make a significant profit
0:22:30 > 0:22:32from the public purse.
0:22:34 > 0:22:39That letter from the landlady says, confirms that she's been a tenant...
0:22:39 > 0:22:42David Hogan is head of Croydon's fraud squad.
0:22:42 > 0:22:47This case, to my mind, is scratching the surface.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50I think there are hundreds, if not thousands, of these sorts of cases,
0:22:50 > 0:22:52of people who've got into the system,
0:22:52 > 0:22:54and they've got so deep into the system
0:22:54 > 0:22:57that it's really hard now to, you know,
0:22:57 > 0:22:59if you look at this particular case, it's really hard to understand
0:22:59 > 0:23:02who this person actually is.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04That's the challenge the team faces.
0:23:04 > 0:23:08If they can't prove Diva is really Angel,
0:23:08 > 0:23:10the suspect is likely to get away.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Oh, this is bollocks.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Mickey Pitt is getting ready for court.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23He's being prosecuted by the taxman
0:23:23 > 0:23:26who want him to pay back the money
0:23:26 > 0:23:28he made from his cigarette smuggling.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31It's like a dentist appointment, I suppose.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33It's something that has to be done.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Don't brush your teeth, you got to go to the dentist, ain't you?
0:23:40 > 0:23:43The trial is taking place in Brighton.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47It's near where Mickey's smuggling operation was first uncovered.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50This is Gatwick Airport, it's where I used to work.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54What memories does it bring back?
0:23:54 > 0:23:56All bad memories. It was a horrible place to go to.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Full of grasses and busybodies.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04He's done his time for that crime
0:24:04 > 0:24:07and this hearing will determine how much he has to pay back.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09What they're supposed to do
0:24:09 > 0:24:11is identify how much I've obtained illegally,
0:24:11 > 0:24:15and then they're supposed to ascertain how much money
0:24:15 > 0:24:18I have left and what assets I have.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20And then they would say to the court,
0:24:20 > 0:24:25"This man has stolen £100 or £1 million," or whatever it is,
0:24:25 > 0:24:27"and this is what he has as a result of it."
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Mickey says he made about 40 grand,
0:24:30 > 0:24:32and he doesn't have the assets to pay it back.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39I got sent to prison initially for five years for smuggling cigarettes.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45That's harsh? You don't identify this as a real crime.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49Purchasing cigarettes at the airport and then selling them on to people.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53It's just saving a little bit of tax.
0:24:55 > 0:24:56Exactly.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01There you go. It's the mentality of people, see?
0:25:05 > 0:25:10But the taxman isn't so relaxed about Mickey's crime.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12HMRC's barrister will be arguing
0:25:12 > 0:25:16that the gang made nearly £500,000 and they should pay it back.
0:25:17 > 0:25:22The judge can make a confiscation order in the full amount,
0:25:22 > 0:25:26which is just in excess of £400,000.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29He will give Mr Pitt time to pay that.
0:25:29 > 0:25:35If Mr Pitt doesn't, then he's liable to be sent to prison
0:25:35 > 0:25:36for five years.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41It's a lot more than Mickey claims his gang made.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44In the coming days, he will have to convince the judge
0:25:44 > 0:25:46HMRC's figures are wrong.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48It's rubbish. Look.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52They're just cigarette sales, you might have bought them.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56I'm telling you that's nothing to do with me. You know?
0:25:57 > 0:25:59It's crazy what they're saying.
0:25:59 > 0:26:04You know, it just doesn't add up, but I would say that, wouldn't I?
0:26:06 > 0:26:08You see that's all I've got, look - debts.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Look, this is me.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13Debts, debts, debts.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17There's a saying in a song by Bob Dylan,
0:26:17 > 0:26:20"steal a little and they throw you in jail,
0:26:20 > 0:26:22"steal a lot and they make you a king,"
0:26:22 > 0:26:25so there is me, under £200,000 that I've stolen,
0:26:25 > 0:26:28I'm being sent to prison for five years.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31And there are these people that are swerving hundreds of millions
0:26:31 > 0:26:32and they're called sirs.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35What is a sir?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Is that a knight in shining armour?
0:26:38 > 0:26:42Is that a knight in shining armour who's helping people?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44I don't try to justify it, it was wrong,
0:26:44 > 0:26:47but on the grand scale of things, what it is
0:26:47 > 0:26:50is I've been sent to prison for five years initially
0:26:50 > 0:26:52because I raided the public's purse.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54So though I take from the public's purse,
0:26:54 > 0:26:57I reimburse them by cheaper alternative cigarettes -
0:26:57 > 0:27:01not substandard, not dangerous, the same cigarette
0:27:01 > 0:27:04but with a less taxation attached to it.
0:27:04 > 0:27:05I should be knighted.
0:27:07 > 0:27:08You know?
0:27:08 > 0:27:12And I mean that. Well, to an extent.
0:27:12 > 0:27:13You know?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16But Mickey isn't up for a seat in the House of Lords -
0:27:16 > 0:27:20he's up in front of a judge who could order him to cough up a small
0:27:20 > 0:27:22fortune or go back to jail.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26It's not poor old me - no, I've done wrong,
0:27:26 > 0:27:30I should have been held accountable, but to what extent?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32To this extent?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34No. No chance.
0:27:35 > 0:27:36This is bollocks, this is.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49I'm in Hillingdon with investigator Kiri to find out more about
0:27:49 > 0:27:51the double dipping operations.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Have you been surprised by the idea of this double dipping?
0:27:54 > 0:27:58How easy it is for someone to just walk in here...
0:28:00 > 0:28:02..put in a claim
0:28:02 > 0:28:04for housing benefit, council tax benefit
0:28:04 > 0:28:08and the very same afternoon could travel back to where
0:28:08 > 0:28:12they've come from and start claiming from there as well.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14There are claims here for benefits,
0:28:14 > 0:28:17claims over there and there are houses here given to them
0:28:17 > 0:28:20by the local authorities and also houses in other countries.
0:28:20 > 0:28:24- There is no link.- It's not a good one.- No link to see whether they are
0:28:24 > 0:28:27being checked or whether the checks are being carried out.
0:28:27 > 0:28:28It is so easy.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31One case stands out.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36Khalid Hussain is a Belgian national with a legitimate passport.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40He's rented a property and he asked for help from England taxpayers,
0:28:40 > 0:28:42which we are giving it to him,
0:28:42 > 0:28:45so the information is he's not in this country,
0:28:45 > 0:28:47he's living in Bruges.
0:28:47 > 0:28:49How much money is involved here?
0:28:49 > 0:28:53The authorities in Belgium have not calculated their loss yet,
0:28:53 > 0:28:57but our loss up to now is about £25,000.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01Hussain's arrest is arranged for the early hours of the morning.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06So we're just following the police team.
0:29:09 > 0:29:10Kiri, are you ready?
0:29:11 > 0:29:14Dawn and Doug, can you go around the back, please?
0:29:24 > 0:29:28Morning. Hi, my name's Sergeant Quinn, I'm from Hillingdon police,
0:29:28 > 0:29:30I've got a warrant to search these premises.
0:29:30 > 0:29:33It turns out he's not in the country.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35The police asked him about Mr Hussain
0:29:35 > 0:29:38and the answer given to the police officer was
0:29:38 > 0:29:41that he's having a holiday in Belgium.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46A few days later and the whole family has gone.
0:29:50 > 0:29:54Is it frustrating for you that he, he has effectively done a runner?
0:29:54 > 0:30:00It is. It is because I've done all the work and now he's in Belgium
0:30:00 > 0:30:05with thousands of pounds claimed by him from the taxpayers.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08I am not able to proceed with this.
0:30:15 > 0:30:17So where has Mr Hussain gone?
0:30:19 > 0:30:20I'm going to try and find him in Belgium
0:30:20 > 0:30:22and see what he's been up to.
0:30:30 > 0:30:34- RECORDED MESSAGE:- '..penny, Jules. You are not going to get away with this.
0:30:34 > 0:30:38'Stupid cow, you're so thick, let go of me...'
0:30:41 > 0:30:42Andrea's had a breakthrough -
0:30:42 > 0:30:46she's found something which could establish the true identity of
0:30:46 > 0:30:48the mystery woman she's arrested.
0:30:48 > 0:30:51'I'm not letting you get away with this, Jules.'
0:30:51 > 0:30:52'What are you talking?'
0:30:53 > 0:30:57'Why don't you say it to the camera and then we'll show it all in court?'
0:30:58 > 0:31:03All I did was just google the name Duffy and this is what I found -
0:31:03 > 0:31:06"Angel Juliet Duffy, fraud."
0:31:06 > 0:31:11- That's the title.- Someone has put this clip on YouTube.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13'Smile for the camera, Jules. We've got to know your real name
0:31:13 > 0:31:15'and what you've been really doing in the flat.
0:31:16 > 0:31:18'Let go of me!'
0:31:20 > 0:31:24It's an investigator's dream to have something like this.
0:31:24 > 0:31:28I've managed to track down the person who put the clip on YouTube.
0:31:28 > 0:31:33She's been very willing to come and see us, in fact, quite excited.
0:31:33 > 0:31:35'Can you just drop it, please?
0:31:35 > 0:31:36- 'No.'- 'Drop what.'- 'Drop what?'
0:31:38 > 0:31:41OK, if you could take a seat. Thank you so much for coming in.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46These friends rented one of Angel's properties.
0:31:46 > 0:31:50It was the flat Angel was claiming housing benefit to live in,
0:31:50 > 0:31:53so she was fraudulently getting two incomes from it -
0:31:53 > 0:31:55the benefit and the rent.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00When we moved in, she was so lovely.
0:32:00 > 0:32:04She said Salomon was like the son she never had
0:32:04 > 0:32:07and we'd go to her house for tea.
0:32:07 > 0:32:09We paid our deposit in cash and then the rent as well
0:32:09 > 0:32:14cos she said that she didn't trust banks.
0:32:14 > 0:32:15Did she give you any receipts?
0:32:15 > 0:32:17- No.- No.- No.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19Did you not question her about that?
0:32:19 > 0:32:22- We did.- Well, the thing is...
0:32:22 > 0:32:25To be honest, she was so nice and...
0:32:25 > 0:32:27Things soon started going wrong -
0:32:27 > 0:32:30the washing machine didn't work and there was no hot water.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33We started complaining about all the stuff going on in the flat.
0:32:33 > 0:32:36- Right.- That's when she started getting aggressive.
0:32:36 > 0:32:41- Right.- She would just burst in at any time in the flat, no warning,
0:32:41 > 0:32:42no nothing, no notice.
0:32:42 > 0:32:44She would just come in and she would be shouting the odds,
0:32:44 > 0:32:46especially at Salomon, that,
0:32:46 > 0:32:48"You're doing this, you're breaking my flat,
0:32:48 > 0:32:50"you're not going to get your deposit money back."
0:32:50 > 0:32:53She said, "We're going to see, I've done that before to people like you
0:32:53 > 0:32:55"guys, I will keep doing it, blah, blah, blah."
0:32:55 > 0:32:59- I was, "All right, fine."- They say things came to a head four months
0:32:59 > 0:33:03after they moved in when Angel turned up with some heavies.
0:33:03 > 0:33:06She brought four guys and they were throwing things out,
0:33:06 > 0:33:08I was like, "Jules, why are you behaving like this?
0:33:08 > 0:33:10"We just paid our rent, you know,
0:33:10 > 0:33:13"we just need this and this fixed and that's all."
0:33:13 > 0:33:16- She came with those guys, they threatened to beat me up.- OK.
0:33:16 > 0:33:20- I was absolutely scared.- I can imagine. Quite intimidating, really.
0:33:20 > 0:33:21That's when I decided to get my phone out
0:33:21 > 0:33:24and I was like, "I'm going to record all of this."
0:33:24 > 0:33:26I say in the video that you're not going to get away with this,
0:33:26 > 0:33:30that's all I want, just for them to bring her down
0:33:30 > 0:33:34cos she's a horrible person, manipulative and aggressive.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38This could be crucial evidence.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41The couple can identify the real Angel Duffy.
0:33:43 > 0:33:48'You are not getting away with this. Trust me, all of you.'
0:33:48 > 0:33:50I just wanted people to know what she looks like
0:33:50 > 0:33:52cos I'm sure she has done it to so many other people.
0:33:52 > 0:33:56It's so great that finally, finally
0:33:56 > 0:33:57something is happening now.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02The picture I now have of Duffy is
0:34:02 > 0:34:08that she is a very, very manipulative, conniving individual.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10She is a bully,
0:34:10 > 0:34:14she had completely got them where she wanted them to be.
0:34:15 > 0:34:17There are a number of other people
0:34:17 > 0:34:20that we've come across that has been affected by her behaviour.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24She is really a nasty piece of work.
0:34:34 > 0:34:38Hopefully, today is the last day, hopefully, this is the end of it.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40I don't know what the outcome's going to be.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42It's judgment day for Mickey Pitt.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48You seem remarkably cheerful for
0:34:48 > 0:34:52a man that might be faced with a prison sentence later on today.
0:34:52 > 0:34:53Cos I'm eating.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58Right, I need to... I need to get dressed.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04He's back in court.
0:35:04 > 0:35:08The judge has decided how much he made from his cigarette smuggling
0:35:08 > 0:35:09and how much he has to pay back.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14What I'd like to happen?
0:35:14 > 0:35:16I'd like the judge to say, "You can have that money back
0:35:16 > 0:35:19"we took off you when we arrested you." It's about £3,000.
0:35:19 > 0:35:21That's what I'd like him to do.
0:35:21 > 0:35:24But I don't think he's going to do that.
0:35:24 > 0:35:28Hopefully, he's going to say I've had about 50K out of it
0:35:28 > 0:35:33and is going to be happy that I've got no money, I've got no hidden assets.
0:35:33 > 0:35:37The right approach would be just to give me a nominal penalty, you know,
0:35:37 > 0:35:40£100, £10, £1 fine or whatever.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49How are you going to feel once this is over?
0:35:49 > 0:35:53Relieved. It depends on what the outcome is though, as well, though.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55I might be pissed off.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00If things go badly and he can't pay his debts,
0:36:00 > 0:36:02this case will be hanging over him for years to come.
0:36:04 > 0:36:09Even if he serves a sentence, that doesn't wipe out the debt.
0:36:09 > 0:36:13It still remains, and so this process can go on and on,
0:36:13 > 0:36:17and he can be pursued in the courts for the money.
0:36:17 > 0:36:21The judge rules the gang made more than 160 grand.
0:36:21 > 0:36:24He accepts Mickey spent most of his share,
0:36:24 > 0:36:30but he's ordered him to pay £36,000 in six months, or go back to jail.
0:36:31 > 0:36:33I feel like laughing, but I don't know whether to cry!
0:36:33 > 0:36:36It's bollocks! Haven't got money!
0:36:36 > 0:36:37I'm skint!
0:36:37 > 0:36:40I think there are going to be some people who are going to say,
0:36:40 > 0:36:43- "It's fair because you've broken the law."- I've broken the law,
0:36:43 > 0:36:46I went to prison for five years, initially got five years.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48It was... I'm a cigarette fucking smuggler,
0:36:48 > 0:36:51not a fucking rapist or a fucking paedophile.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54I got five years for cigarette smuggling, the Court of Appeal said
0:36:54 > 0:36:56that was a bit harsh. So they knocked it down to four years.
0:36:56 > 0:36:58He's just given me another year back.
0:37:00 > 0:37:01I kind of put myself in this predicament,
0:37:01 > 0:37:03but I haven't got the money they said I've got.
0:37:03 > 0:37:06They said I've hid the money. I've hid the money!
0:37:06 > 0:37:07I haven't hid it!
0:37:08 > 0:37:10You know?
0:37:10 > 0:37:11It's just bollocks.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20I felt like saying to the judge that he might have sent me to jail now.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23But, you know, I've got six months to win the lottery
0:37:23 > 0:37:26between now and then so, you know, who knows?
0:37:26 > 0:37:30Yeah, they want... Those fucking wankers want...
0:37:30 > 0:37:32Said I've got 35K hidden somewhere.
0:37:32 > 0:37:36But with a 14-month jail sentence hanging over him,
0:37:36 > 0:37:38the pressure's on for Mickey to find the cash.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55So this is Bruges,
0:37:55 > 0:37:59and we're here because we're looking at the case of Khalid Hussain.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02Now, this is a guy who claims benefits in the UK,
0:38:02 > 0:38:07but the suggestion is that he actually also lives and works here
0:38:07 > 0:38:10in Bruges. We have an address where he was last registered,
0:38:10 > 0:38:13so we're going to go and see if we can find that,
0:38:13 > 0:38:16and use that as a starting point for our investigation.
0:38:23 > 0:38:24This is where...
0:38:26 > 0:38:29..he was registered as living, just here on the end.
0:38:29 > 0:38:32But they're quite nice houses.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34I've teamed up with a local fixer.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36She gets out to see what we can find.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38Yes, here we are.
0:38:43 > 0:38:47I have some publicity with me to put in the letterbox if needed.
0:38:47 > 0:38:49- Sort of cover, yeah?- Exactly.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52- And as you can see, here he is.- Wow.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55Now, Khalid Hussain is not that uncommon a name,
0:38:55 > 0:38:58but nonetheless this seems to suggest that this is where he is.
0:38:58 > 0:38:59Yeah, yeah.
0:39:00 > 0:39:02As you can see here...
0:39:02 > 0:39:04It looks like Khalid Hussain is here,
0:39:04 > 0:39:06but we need proof. We need to see him.
0:39:17 > 0:39:18This guy looks very wet.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23Just as we're about to give up, the front door opens.
0:39:26 > 0:39:29Damn, I can't see him because of the bloody rain.
0:39:30 > 0:39:32Not much of a glimpse.
0:39:32 > 0:39:35It could be Khalid Hussain, but we'll have to keep on looking.
0:39:51 > 0:39:52Put it down.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55- SHE SNIFFS - I just wanted a sniff.
0:39:55 > 0:39:59- Can I have some cake, Andrea?- Yes.
0:39:59 > 0:40:00It's been two months since
0:40:00 > 0:40:04Andrea's team arrested the woman with multiple identities.
0:40:05 > 0:40:09The evidence is building she's the person they're after -
0:40:09 > 0:40:11a fraudster called Angel.
0:40:11 > 0:40:14Final confirmation comes from Angel's own solicitor.
0:40:16 > 0:40:20He's confirmed that Diva Paris Anderson...
0:40:20 > 0:40:26- Yeah.- ..the person who we arrested, is indeed Angel Juliet Jackson.
0:40:26 > 0:40:28And he said...
0:40:28 > 0:40:31- What did I tell you?- He doesn't...
0:40:31 > 0:40:33What did we say? What did we say all along?
0:40:33 > 0:40:36She's just a compulsive liar all the way through.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39It's one lie after the other.
0:40:39 > 0:40:43Angel is now suspected of committing more than 20 offences,
0:40:43 > 0:40:47from using a false ID to housing benefit fraud.
0:40:47 > 0:40:50She's also linked to more than 35 bank accounts,
0:40:50 > 0:40:53and there are some serious sums going through them.
0:40:53 > 0:40:57£2,000, £5,000.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59£22,000.
0:40:59 > 0:41:02£6,000.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06The highest figure I have going into one of the accounts
0:41:06 > 0:41:08is £50,000 in a day.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12I don't know where this money's coming from.
0:41:14 > 0:41:18The problem is, for us and the council, are the same -
0:41:18 > 0:41:22the money tends to be a little bit transient. It tends to move.
0:41:22 > 0:41:25They decide to charge Angel as quickly as possible.
0:41:25 > 0:41:29They're worried that she and the money may disappear abroad.
0:41:32 > 0:41:36Back in Belgium, and we're struggling to find Khalid Hussain
0:41:36 > 0:41:38at his house, so we're trying to find another approach.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44We're trying to find out if Khalid Hussain is living
0:41:44 > 0:41:46and working, crucially, here in Bruges.
0:41:46 > 0:41:49We're going to follow our main clue,
0:41:49 > 0:41:51which is the last place he was registered as working,
0:41:51 > 0:41:54which is Cafe Central, here right in the centre of Bruges.
0:41:58 > 0:42:01Yeah, we might only have a starter, actually, you see.
0:42:01 > 0:42:03- WAITER:- Yeah, no problem.
0:42:04 > 0:42:07So we've been here about half an hour.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10We haven't seen Khalid Hussain yet.
0:42:10 > 0:42:13One of the crew, posing as a TV location scout,
0:42:13 > 0:42:16asks if she can look around.
0:42:16 > 0:42:17At the back of the restaurant,
0:42:17 > 0:42:22she gets a glimpse of a man we think might be Khalid Hussain.
0:42:22 > 0:42:24A-ha! Hi.
0:42:24 > 0:42:25How much are they?
0:42:27 > 0:42:31- How much are the cigarettes here? - HE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY
0:42:31 > 0:42:35He disappears into the kitchen, so we talk our way in there as well.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38Hello. I'm sorry to disturb you.
0:42:38 > 0:42:43- Yeah, hi.- It's fine. Television, hey?- Watch out.
0:42:43 > 0:42:46- And there he is, right at the back...- It's a great kitchen.
0:42:46 > 0:42:47..Khalid Hussain.
0:42:48 > 0:42:50You guys seem a very good team.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53Yeah, there's pretty...
0:42:53 > 0:42:55Yeah, I know you speak English, you were helping me
0:42:55 > 0:42:57with the cigarette machine.
0:42:57 > 0:43:01- Caught you out. - He's very shy.- Are you?
0:43:01 > 0:43:02It's not surprising he's cautious.
0:43:02 > 0:43:08Over the last two years, he's stolen £25,000 from the UK taxpayer.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10Have you been to the UK?
0:43:10 > 0:43:12Yeah?
0:43:12 > 0:43:15Did you like it? Which part did you visit? Do you know? Uh-huh.
0:43:18 > 0:43:20Sorry?
0:43:20 > 0:43:21Uh-huh.
0:43:25 > 0:43:27We've found him.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30When his shift is over, I'd like to have a word with him.
0:43:35 > 0:43:37Today, we're going to arrest,
0:43:37 > 0:43:40we're hoping to arrest Angel Juliet Jackson.
0:43:41 > 0:43:44Back in Croydon, and Andrea is now ready to charge Angel.
0:43:45 > 0:43:48But there's a problem. They don't know where she is.
0:43:50 > 0:43:52She has broken her bail conditions.
0:43:52 > 0:43:56She has not returned to the... for the bail date.
0:43:56 > 0:44:00She has supplied a letter from a hospital to say that
0:44:00 > 0:44:03she's had a suspected stroke.
0:44:03 > 0:44:05I can't take her letter on face value,
0:44:05 > 0:44:06because we have evidence showing
0:44:06 > 0:44:10that she's falsified documents from doctors previously.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19The worry is she's about to do a runner.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34KNOCKING
0:44:37 > 0:44:39Definitely came from there.
0:44:39 > 0:44:41Right now, we've heard someone in there.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43We believe we've heard someone in there.
0:44:43 > 0:44:46It's Andrea Cordrey, from Croydon Council
0:44:46 > 0:44:49with the police. Can you open the door, please?
0:44:51 > 0:44:53Angel, you need to come to the door where you can hear me.
0:44:55 > 0:44:58We know you're in there, so we can force entry if we need to.
0:45:05 > 0:45:07- But this isn't Scooby-Doo, unfortunately.- No, no.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12It's sad, really, but we'll have to go in. We'll have to force entry.
0:45:15 > 0:45:18Angel, we're coming in now.
0:45:18 > 0:45:21You need to stand back away from the door, or come and open it now.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31Police! Police!
0:45:40 > 0:45:42- There's no balcony here? - No balcony, no.
0:45:47 > 0:45:49Nothing. Nothing.
0:45:49 > 0:45:52The walls are so thin in these buildings that it's quite
0:45:52 > 0:45:57possible that what we heard was from next door, then.
0:45:57 > 0:45:59From the walls next door.
0:45:59 > 0:46:01They've just missed her.
0:46:01 > 0:46:03The windows are still open.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05The electric heaters are still on.
0:46:10 > 0:46:13- What is that book?- The Master...
0:46:13 > 0:46:16Grimoire. Grimoire Of Magical Rites.
0:46:19 > 0:46:21The witchcraft, or the juju stuff.
0:46:26 > 0:46:28Have you seen her lately?
0:46:28 > 0:46:30I think I saw her last night.
0:46:30 > 0:46:32Last night? OK.
0:46:32 > 0:46:34- But not this morning. Not this morning.- Not this morning.
0:46:36 > 0:46:37Angel has vanished.
0:46:37 > 0:46:38It's what they feared.
0:46:39 > 0:46:43All they can do now is hope that the police can find her.
0:46:50 > 0:46:53So we're outside the restaurant in Bruges where we know Khalid Hussain
0:46:53 > 0:46:56works, and we know where he is working tonight.
0:46:56 > 0:46:58And we are waiting for him.
0:47:00 > 0:47:02My name's Richard Bilton. I work for the BBC.
0:47:02 > 0:47:05I just want to have a quick word with you about your benefits,
0:47:05 > 0:47:06cos you get about a bit, don't you?
0:47:06 > 0:47:10You claim here in Belgium and you claim in the UK.
0:47:10 > 0:47:12How's that possible?
0:47:12 > 0:47:15Just tell us, how could you claim benefits here in Belgium
0:47:15 > 0:47:16and in the UK?
0:47:18 > 0:47:19But you live here.
0:47:21 > 0:47:23Sir, please just give me your explanation.
0:47:23 > 0:47:26He eventually stops to talk.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28OK, but you did claim benefits here in Belgium, didn't you?
0:47:30 > 0:47:33Now you've got a job now, but you did in the past, didn't you?
0:47:33 > 0:47:36In the past? You've claimed benefits in Belgium?
0:47:37 > 0:47:39Yeah, yeah.
0:47:39 > 0:47:42So you claimed benefits in Belgium and you claim benefits in the UK.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52So Mr Hussain says he's sorry.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54It's not really us he has to explain to.
0:47:54 > 0:47:58It's the British taxpayer, and more immediately, it's the police.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02I take our footage back to show Kiri.
0:48:04 > 0:48:06- There he is.- Oh, yes.
0:48:06 > 0:48:07Mr Hussain.
0:48:07 > 0:48:11ON VIDEO: 'I just wanted to have a quick word with you about your benefits. Cos you claim benefits
0:48:11 > 0:48:13'in a country that you don't live!'
0:48:13 > 0:48:17When you see his life, I'm not defending what he did,
0:48:17 > 0:48:19but he doesn't have a glamorous life. He's working late shifts
0:48:19 > 0:48:22at the back of a kitchen in Belgium.
0:48:22 > 0:48:25Does it temper the way you feel about him to see that he...?
0:48:25 > 0:48:29No, no. There's nothing stopping him from claiming in Belgium.
0:48:29 > 0:48:31That's where he lives.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34I mean, if he's in receipt of low earnings from his employer,
0:48:34 > 0:48:38there's nothing stopping him from claiming in Belgium.
0:48:38 > 0:48:43What is wrong and seriously wrong is claiming to be living in the UK and
0:48:43 > 0:48:45claiming off of our taxpayers.
0:48:45 > 0:48:49There are thousands of people here who deserve help.
0:48:49 > 0:48:52And he has taken all that money away from them.
0:48:52 > 0:48:5420,000 plus from the taxpayers.
0:48:54 > 0:48:57How many cases are there like that?
0:48:57 > 0:49:02A lot, lot more. How many claims are made using easy passports?
0:49:02 > 0:49:07Do we have the means to check whether
0:49:07 > 0:49:09these people are claiming in other countries?
0:49:09 > 0:49:10I don't think so.
0:49:11 > 0:49:17Do we have a system in place to cross-match the details?
0:49:17 > 0:49:21I don't think so. So these people do get away with it.
0:49:21 > 0:49:24There's got to be some way of preventing this.
0:49:25 > 0:49:30Five years on, and Mr Hussain hasn't returned to face justice.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34Today, councils don't investigate this kind of benefit fraud.
0:49:34 > 0:49:38That job's been handed to the Department of Work and Pensions.
0:49:44 > 0:49:48- Whilst I'm not saying she hasn't had a stroke...- There's nothing showing that she has.- I'm not a doctor.
0:49:48 > 0:49:51There's nothing in this paperwork to say that she has had a stroke.
0:49:51 > 0:49:54It's just she went to hospital complaining of symptoms
0:49:54 > 0:49:55that could be a stroke.
0:49:56 > 0:49:59Andrea and her team are at the police station,
0:49:59 > 0:50:01preparing to welcome a special guest.
0:50:04 > 0:50:10Angel Duffy, or Angel Jackson, or Diva Paris Anderson,
0:50:10 > 0:50:12has decided to turn herself in.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15She claims to have suffered a stroke.
0:50:17 > 0:50:20- OVER INTERCOM:- 'Hello?'
0:50:20 > 0:50:22- WEAKLY:- Hello.- 'Hello.' - I've got an appointment.
0:50:28 > 0:50:30Jackson is your surname?
0:50:32 > 0:50:34She's here, that's the main thing.
0:50:34 > 0:50:37She'll be assessed by the police and we'll go from there.
0:50:39 > 0:50:43Right, Angel. Very importantly, have you ever tried to harm yourself?
0:50:43 > 0:50:47SHE PANTS
0:50:47 > 0:50:50Angel, it's taking more effort for you to breathe heavily like that
0:50:50 > 0:50:51than it is for you to talk to me.
0:50:51 > 0:50:53So can you talk to me, please?
0:50:54 > 0:50:58The team has evidence suggesting Angel has faked strokes before
0:50:58 > 0:51:00to claim disability benefit.
0:51:00 > 0:51:03They're going to get a police doctor to look at her.
0:51:03 > 0:51:06Angel, listen, you've put your coat on yourself,
0:51:06 > 0:51:08you've got yourself dressed and you've got yourself here.
0:51:08 > 0:51:13I need you to take it off so that we can search you properly.
0:51:14 > 0:51:15All right?
0:51:17 > 0:51:19This is just pure drama.
0:51:19 > 0:51:22Oscar-winning performance, exactly as I thought it would be.
0:51:22 > 0:51:26If I was a betting woman, I would be winning right now.
0:51:26 > 0:51:27The only thing that was missing
0:51:27 > 0:51:30was her throwing herself literally on the floor.
0:51:33 > 0:51:34She knows what's coming.
0:51:34 > 0:51:37She knows that there is no way of avoiding it.
0:51:37 > 0:51:40And what she's trying to do is play the card that
0:51:40 > 0:51:44"I am so ill, I am sick, I can't walk, I can't talk,
0:51:44 > 0:51:45"I can't read, I can't write."
0:51:45 > 0:51:49- MUMBLING:- Dear God... Don't let my...
0:51:53 > 0:51:57The police doctor says she's fit to be detained and interviewed.
0:51:57 > 0:52:00Something which you later rely on in court and anything you do or say
0:52:00 > 0:52:02may be given in evidence.
0:52:02 > 0:52:04Can you tell me when it was that you came to this country?
0:52:08 > 0:52:10No comment? OK.
0:52:10 > 0:52:12What name was it that you used to come to this country?
0:52:15 > 0:52:18OK. You might as well raise your...
0:52:20 > 0:52:21I'm tired.
0:52:21 > 0:52:25Two hours later, and the mood changes dramatically.
0:52:25 > 0:52:28And she was accusing you of chucking her out of her property as her
0:52:28 > 0:52:31- landlady.- Obviously somebody's upset about something.
0:52:31 > 0:52:33- You seem a little bit better than you were feeling...- Yes!
0:52:33 > 0:52:35- You're being quite animated. - Because it's too much!
0:52:35 > 0:52:38It's too much when a person puts something on you. It's too much!
0:52:38 > 0:52:40People's lives should be more important!
0:52:40 > 0:52:43You've done that... My health is at risk!
0:52:43 > 0:52:44You put my health at risk!
0:52:44 > 0:52:46Doctors are telling you...
0:52:46 > 0:52:49She is remanded in custody until her trial.
0:52:49 > 0:52:50This Ms Cordrey, what does she want from you?
0:52:53 > 0:52:57We are now going to start getting on with the job at hand.
0:52:57 > 0:52:58This is to bring her to court
0:52:58 > 0:53:02so that the victims can get some justice.
0:53:02 > 0:53:04Is there anything else you need? You sure you don't want anything to eat?
0:53:04 > 0:53:07- No, just give me some space. - Yeah? OK.- I appreciate it.
0:53:07 > 0:53:12- No problem at all.- But Angel won't be imprisoned for long.
0:53:12 > 0:53:13In the coming months,
0:53:13 > 0:53:16events will take place that will turn this case on its head.
0:53:25 > 0:53:31It's been over a year since Mickey was ordered to pay back his £36,000.
0:53:31 > 0:53:32I've come to see how he's getting on.
0:53:36 > 0:53:39- You all right?- Yeah, I'm good. - So this is where you ended up?
0:53:39 > 0:53:41One of the places, yeah.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45Mickey didn't pay and was sentenced to 14 months.
0:53:46 > 0:53:48What was your attitude like this second time,
0:53:48 > 0:53:50compared to serving the first sentence?
0:53:50 > 0:53:53- Was it different?- I was pissed off.
0:53:53 > 0:53:54It was fucking wrong!
0:53:54 > 0:53:57I swear on my children's life, I didn't make that money.
0:53:57 > 0:53:59I didn't make the money. You're laughing!
0:53:59 > 0:54:02I'm not laughing! I'm only laughing because your passion, it never dims.
0:54:02 > 0:54:04No, but it's the truth!
0:54:04 > 0:54:07It's not about being passionate, it's about being honest!
0:54:07 > 0:54:11Despite going to prison twice because of the same crime,
0:54:11 > 0:54:13he remains defiant.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15I'm telling you this. If there is a God upstairs...
0:54:15 > 0:54:17- Yes.- ..he'll let me in.
0:54:17 > 0:54:20- Right.- He'll put me on probation, but he'll let me in.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22- Yes.- But he won't let Tony Blair in. - He probably...- Or Georgie Bush.
0:54:22 > 0:54:25He'd probably search you as you came in, wouldn't he?
0:54:25 > 0:54:27- In case you're bringing in some... - He's got magic eyes.
0:54:27 > 0:54:29He's got magic eyes!
0:54:30 > 0:54:32Do you look back and regret it now?
0:54:32 > 0:54:35Getting caught, yeah. My only regret is getting caught.
0:54:36 > 0:54:39I'm not going to burn in hell for what I done.
0:54:40 > 0:54:43You know? What I done was...
0:54:43 > 0:54:46- acceptable.- You can't do that. You can't get away with that,
0:54:46 > 0:54:48- I don't think.- Why not?- Because...
0:54:48 > 0:54:50Because basically, you were making money out of...
0:54:50 > 0:54:53- Yeah.- ..cigarettes, that duty wasn't paid on them.
0:54:53 > 0:54:54- Yeah.- We all depend on that duty.
0:54:54 > 0:54:58Yeah, no, no. But in turn, the people that buy them are saving money.
0:54:58 > 0:54:59There's no moral case to this.
0:54:59 > 0:55:01You can't accept that.
0:55:01 > 0:55:03Listen, it was wrong. It was wrong.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05But I will live with myself.
0:55:05 > 0:55:08You know? I don't think...
0:55:08 > 0:55:10I think that when somebody, you know,
0:55:10 > 0:55:16pays himself £1 billion and decides to use, you know, non-domiciles
0:55:16 > 0:55:19to evade tax, OK,
0:55:19 > 0:55:21or avoid tax,
0:55:21 > 0:55:23is more morally wrong than me.
0:55:23 > 0:55:25Yeah, but that's like saying, "I only beat people up,
0:55:25 > 0:55:29"but he murders people, so therefore my crime doesn't really compare to him."
0:55:29 > 0:55:33You committed a crime. You just committed a crime. It doesn't matter what anybody else is doing.
0:55:33 > 0:55:34But I was a drop in the ocean.
0:55:34 > 0:55:38You know? It was pennies, what I obtained.
0:55:38 > 0:55:40But the powerful and the elite...
0:55:40 > 0:55:42we won't worry about them.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45They've got friends in high places.
0:55:45 > 0:55:47That's how it is. But you know this.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51Could you ever imagine yourself back in another scam?
0:55:51 > 0:55:54No. No. I mean, what do you want me to say?
0:55:54 > 0:55:56That, you know, I'm digging a tunnel to my local bank?
0:55:56 > 0:55:58No, I don't, but after all you've been through,
0:55:58 > 0:56:01this is the time now to just... straight and narrow.
0:56:01 > 0:56:04Yeah. I would like to...
0:56:07 > 0:56:09I don't know.
0:56:09 > 0:56:13Pay my debt to society, you know, to pay my way in life.
0:56:13 > 0:56:15But, you know,
0:56:15 > 0:56:19like I said, my prospects are pretty slim.
0:56:19 > 0:56:22I don't think I've got, you know, I'm going to be headhunted.
0:56:22 > 0:56:25You know? I'll let fate decide what happens to me.
0:56:27 > 0:56:29I hope Mickey doesn't leave it to fate
0:56:29 > 0:56:33and uses his abilities to try and pay his debts legally.
0:56:33 > 0:56:37Otherwise, he's going to have a 36 grand debt hanging over him
0:56:37 > 0:56:39for the rest of his life.
0:56:45 > 0:56:48Next week, there's a dramatic twist in Angel Jackson's case.
0:56:50 > 0:56:51It's a bit stressful.
0:56:51 > 0:56:54We got a phone call from the prison informing us that she had a stroke.
0:56:56 > 0:56:59It seems as if she's beaten me.
0:57:01 > 0:57:06And the net closes on fraudsters using benefits to live abroad.
0:57:06 > 0:57:09If you look up at the camera, imagine what he was thinking.
0:57:09 > 0:57:11"Are you watching me?"
0:57:12 > 0:57:14Hell yeah. We are watching you.