MOSCOW, May 27 (RAPSI) - The State Duma is working on legislation which would require officials to pass an "anti-corruption" test using a lie detector, Izvestia daily wrote on Monday.

According to the newspaper, the presidential anti-corruption council will meet in early June to discuss the possibility of introducing anticorruption tests.

The State Duma Security and Anticorruption Committee is working on a set of anti-corruption initiatives, including the use of polygraphs, the newspaper writes. Other proposals include legalizing mandatory psychological tests for officials.

"Anticorruption testing was proposed by the Kremlin and the council members. But the policies will certainly have to be formulated in legal acts," presidential council member Anatoly Kucherena told Izvestia.

The policy of using lie detector tests on Russian officials, primarily Government members, to prevent corruption, was initially brought up by the Rodina political party in 2004.

In 2006, Kazan, capital of the republic of Tatarstan, introduced a mandatory "staff audit" for the city government, which included a voluntary lie detector test. Polygraphs were first used for broad anticorruption testing in November 2007 and led to about 80 officials being fired.