Pair charged with fraud over alleged solar panel scam on Gold Coast A MAN and a woman have been charged with fraud following investigations into an alleged 2011 solar panel scam on the Gold Coast. The 59-year-old man and 48-year-old woman were charged on Wednesday following a lengthy investigation by the Fraud and Corporate Crime Group. The pair, from Robina, are accused of being involved with a scam that involved the sale of solar panel products in 2011. Most of those affected by the alleged scam were from the Gold Coast. The fraud charges were laid after detectives executed a search warrant at a Robina property yesterday. Both the man and the woman have already appeared in Southport Magistrates Court and will reappear in Brisbane Magistrates Court on February 19.