Watch: £50m benefit fraud gang shower floor with taxpayer money after milking system 'like a cash machine'

Footage from a seized mobile phone shows the fraudsters showering their flat with hundreds of £20 notes. The organised crime gang falsely claimed more than £50 million of Universal Credit, in the largest benefit fraud ever in the UK.

Hijacked identities

Wood Green Crown Court heard how over a four-and-a-half-year period, between October 2016 and May 2021, the organised crime group made thousands of false claims for Universal Credit using either real people or hijacked identities.