Officers raid a house in Chigwell, Essex where they arrest 22-year-old Romanian Maxim Catana and gang members Nikolajs Delvers and Daniel Anghell. They also discover a `working ATM factory' and financial records that have netted the gang around £2million.
The series continues to shadow detectives as they investigate 'boiler room' fraud which is a lucrative enterprise in which people are conned into buying worthless shares in made up companies.
The cameras are given access to the Economic Crime Department of the City of London Police, as they look at how organised crime is targeting our life savings and laundering the stolen millions through front companies, offshore accounts as well as gold.
The first of three programmes reveals how criminals make millions conning victims into buying worthless land they claim is ripe for property development.
Detectives working for the Metropolitan Police are after a gang behind the biggest ever bank cheque fraud in Britain worth around £6.5 million.
Detectives find out that the gang is using a sophisticated smuggling network to move millions of pounds back to Zimbabwe. They attempt to locate Onias Hove as they find out that the fraudsters have been targeting the most vulnerable people in the country.