Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Suspended Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary David Almirol Jr. on Thursday denied allegations of a conflict of interest in 1.55 billion pesos worth of government contracts, maintaining that he fully divested from his former software company within the legal deadline. In a radio interview with DZRH, Almirol said he transferred his entire equity stake in Multisys Technologies Corp. to telecommunications firm PLDT Inc. in September 2022. The statement directly counters an Office of the Ombudsman order issued …