Listed gaming company PhilWeb Corp. has clarified that its chairman, Roberto Ongpin, resigned to protect the company from closure.

Ongpin, who was publicly singled out by President Rodrigo Duterte in a tirade against “oligarchs” last week, was earlier announced as leaving PhilWeb to focus on his property company, Alphaland Corp.

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