The New Zealand-based Stuff news website reported today that the money from the confidential settlement would be going into a trust for his wife, Sharlene, and their two children.
It said Sharlene had also joined a group in suing the Russian government over the crash in the European Court of Human Rights.
Rob, 27, was the only victim from New Zealand in the incident which took the lives of all 298 passengers and crew members on board.
According to the report, his family described Sharlene and him as “soul mates” after the incident.
“She is his princess. She changed his life and he changed hers. She held his heart and he held hers,” the family had said in a statement.
Sharlene is understood to have limited access to the compensation fund, the report added.
Due to personal problems, she signed over guardianship of the children to Rob’s parents, John and Wendie, it said.
She has since been remarried to Jeremy William Daley, a self-employed waste collector whom she met through Facebook, the report said, adding that she described him as her “knight in shining armour”.
The Stuff report said Malaysian Airlines paid out the settlement two weeks after their marriage in November last year.
It also said Daley had appeared at the Christchurch district court on Feb 13 charged with assaulting Sharlene.
His lawyer, Lee Lee Heah, however handed the court a letter written by Sharlene saying she had “deliberately” made false complaints of assault against him, the report added.
The Post Accident Office of the Malaysian Airline System said in a statement: “We can confirm that both parties have reached an amicable and confidential settlement.
“We will not however disclose any further details on this in respect to the privacy, the safety and security of the affected family members.
“We continue to hope and pray that all affected by this tragedy to have continued strength with each passing day.”
Flight MH17 was shot down over Donetsk in war-torn eastern Ukraine while it was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014.
Authorities concluded that the plane was shot down by the ground-to-air rocket that was made in Russia. Moscow, however, denied that any of its rockets could have been used.
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