For the violent dispersal of students from the Maidan in 2013, the court granted permission for the SBI to conduct a special investigation against Sivkovych

The court granted the SBI investigator's motion to conduct a special pre-trial investigation into former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Volodymyr Sivkovych.

The State Bureau of Investigation is conducting a pre-trial investigation into criminal proceedings on suspicion of Volodymyr Sivkovych's illegal interference with protests during the Revolution of Dignity.

A special pre-trial investigation will enable the indictment to be sent to court in absentia.

On the night of November 30, 2013, the Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine was the instigator and organizer of the violent dispersal of students from Independence Square in Kyiv.

The investigation established that for this purpose, the former official conspired with the former Head of the Kyiv City State Administration and influenced the Head of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in his office.

He persuaded law enforcement officer to give an order to police officers to clear by force Independence Square from citizens who exercised their constitutional right to peaceful assembly.

As a result of the execution of this unlawful order, police officers and servicemen of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine inflicted bodily injuries of varying severity to 127 citizens. About 300 participants of the meeting were pushed out of the Independence Monument and the monument to the founders of Kyiv outside the square in the direction of Institutskaya, Architector Gorodetsky and Khreshchatyk streets. At the same time, law enforcement officers exceeded their authority, used violence and special tools - such as «ПР-73» ("PR-73") and «Томфа» ("Tomfa") batons, etc.

The former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine is suspected of organizing illegal interference with rallies committed by an official and organizing exceeding of authority by law enforcement officers combined with use of physical violence (Part 3 of Article 27, Article 340 and Part 3 of Article 27, Part 2 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

On June 10, 2020, Volodymyr Sivkovych was put on the international wanted list.

Procedural guidance is carried out by Prosecutor General’s Office.