Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. The Office of the Ombudsman has placed Department of Information and Communications Technology Undersecretary for E-Government David L. Almirol Jr. under a six-month preventive suspension without pay over an alleged conflict of interest involving 1.55 billion pesos in government contracts. In a seven-page order released Wednesday, Oct. 21, the anti-graft body found sufficient grounds to suspend Almirol pending administrative adjudication for grave misconduct, conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service and violations of Republic Act No. 6713, also …