Yaroslav Pastukhov (born June 1990), more commonly known as Slava Pastuk, is a Ukrainian-born Canadian author, former prisoner, drug smuggler and music editor.
[3][2] A few years later he and his mother moved to Barrie, where he attended the St. Joan of Arc High School, and worked part time at the local Shoppers Drug Mart where he also stole perfume and cologne to order.
[3][2] Upon moving to Toronto in 2011, Pastuk worked interviewing rappers for a YouTube show called "First Encounters[4][5]" for local blog hustleGRL, run by Karla Moy.
[3] In 2015,[11] along with Ali Taki Lalji,[1] Pastuk recruited five colleagues at Vice media to smuggle $20 million[11] of cocaine on the same route, however Australian immigration authorities arrested them.
[7] In 2017, Pastuk was featured in the National Post article How a Former Editor Allegedly Used Vice Canada to Recruit Drug Mules for a Global Smuggling Ring.