The same year, he worked as a mechanical engineer of the Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk Production Association "Reinforced Concrete".

In 1994, he graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Internal Affairs, specialising in Jurisprudence, and qualified as a lawyer.

From 2005 to 2007, he was the Director of the Department of the State Service of Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

In 2014, he also worked as the Director of the Department of Economic Security and Risk Management of the National Joint-Stock Company Naftogaz Ukrainy.

False version of the detainee failed to prove and Svystovych was released, but the bottles were confiscated.