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TORONTO — A former Vice Canada editor along with one of his former colleagues at the youth-focused media company were released from jail on bail Friday, into the waiting arms of their anxious and emotional families.

Both men are accused of arranging for large loads of cocaine to be smuggled into Australia, resulting in the arrest of five drug couriers at Sydney airport in 2015.

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Yaroslav Pastukhov, 28, who mainly wrote under the name Slava Pastuk in his high-profile position as music editor with Vice’s Toronto operations and who was known online as Slava P, walked stiffly and swiftly away from Toronto’s Old City Hall court, clutching the waist of his tearful mother.

He declined to talk to the National Post as he left.

His co-accused, Ali Taki Lalji, 30, was hugged by his mother and father and other supporters; mother and son both wiped away tears.

He also declined to comment.

Both men face charges of conspiracy to import cocaine.