 It looks like notorious director Roman Polanski will be held in jail for at least three more days because he needs time to pay his staggering $4.5 million bail, Swiss authorities revealed on Tuesday. All other conditions have been met to allow the 76-year-old auteur to be placed under house arrest at his Alpine chalet. The bail transfer is expected in the next few days said Ministry spokesman Folco Galli. During his house arrest, Polanski will be fitted with an electronic monitoring bracelet. He will not be allowed to leave his house in Gstaad until Switzerland decides whether or not to extradite him to the U.S. for sentencing. Polanski’s bail is set for $4.5 million, which he must pay in full. Roman has been held in Swiss custody since his arrest on September 26. He travelled to Zurich to receive a lifetime achievement award and was subsequently apprehended. The courts in Los Angeles want him returned for sentencing for a crime he committed over 31 years ago. On Monday, Polanski was visited in jail by his lawyer Lorenz Erni and French diplomat Jean-Luc Faure-Tournaire. Faure-Tournaire said Polanski was in "good spirits" and satisfied with how he has been treated. It is uncertain when Polanski's wife and two children would join him in Gstaad. Polanski exchanged wedding rings with model/actress Emmanuelle Seigner in 1989. The filmmaker of such classics as Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist fled the U.S. on February 1, 1978, on the day he was expected to be formally sentenced. He moved to and lived in France ever since, because France does not extradite its citizens. Polanski contends that the U.S. judge and prosecutors acted unjustly in his case. His attorneys will argue before a California appeals court in December that the charges should be dismissed.
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