r/EcuadorTravel

There is a Canadian TikToker named Ryan Wiersma in Montanita who has a business helping Americans and Canadians move to Ecuador. I joined one of his webinars (and he has a couple TikToks doing the same thing); he teaches foreigners how to bribe police, bribe for building permits (says the house he built has no permits and he’ll just bribe for them later), and says he’ll even help bribe security companies to get people gun permits if they want. He even says he’s building Airbnbs on the beach without permits and will just bribe for them later. He also encourages illegal drugs. He is very open about this. Luckily his house wasn’t worth enough for the investor visa so he says he’s switching to a digital nomad visa.

These are all crimes in Ecuador, right? How does one report this?

EDIT: Additional information

His socials:

https://youtube.com/@wiersmerica
https://www.instagram.com/wiersmerica
https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanwiersma
https://www.facebook.com/ryan.wiersma.7/
https://www.facebook.com/p/BrickHouse-Life-In-Ecuador-61583870366766/

His livestream where he admits this shit: https://www.facebook.com/61583870366766/videos/2048097232486380/
(He starts admitting shit around 1:04:30-1:06:00ish then constantly throughout the rest of the stream)

His website where he monetizes this crap: https://www.ryan-wiersma.com/register

Video where he openly brags about bribery being great in Ecuador (all these links are same video just on different platforms):
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZP8nH9pDu/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYcfwv0A9dt
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1528440772026258
https://www.facebook.com/reel/839663119204492
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/M9E29UwGqww

Tweet: https://x.com/Wiersmerica/status/2058635529554424267

***UPDATE***: He has seen this thread. He deleted his Facebook livestream. Some of the clips from the LIVE can be found here: https://www.tiktok.com/@mrpoptartheaven/video/7669212741294476575

I also recorded his entire livestream in silence so all evidence is recoverable. I will see if I can post the entire livestream somewhere.

***UPDATE***
Livestream recovered from a friend: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uSxvMGJbjnxpmFgXTKNy3JFJWDnyVuKR/view?usp=drivesdk

0:52:40 - talking about bribery to cops
0:54:40 - talking about bribery for building permits and saying it’s just to say it’s to save time
0:56:10 - bribery question answered
0:58:43 - Bribery. He say he has “specialists” who take care of it for building permits.
0:59:27 - advising to use bribery to obtain firearms
1:00:50 - says he didn’t have documents while riding bike and had to bribe to get out of ticket
1:01:40 - “we can definitely bribe for permits if we need. I’m not going to lie guys the house I’m in right now this house has no permits. And when I need them I’m just going to pay someone.”
1:02:50 - bribery to obtain firearm again
1:03:10 - answers question “ohhh so you take care of “buying the coffee” for the officials? So we don’t have to worry about it”. 
1:09:47 - talks about “making it happen” for his AirBNBs he’s building after building without permits.
1:10:45 - gives example of using a specialist “jose” for “building permit problem”
1:16:00 - says that he is building Airbnbs that are rentals