Polanski May Have to Pay $4.5M for Release

Roman Polanski remained in a Switzerland jail Monday, despite speaking with his lawyer Lorenz Erni and French diplomat Jean-Luc Faure-Tournaire. It's also unclear whether Polanski has paid his full bond payment of $4.5 million to be released.

The Swiss Justice Ministry has yet to say what guarantees Polanski's transfer from the jail near Zurich to house arrest at his chalet in the luxury resort of Gstaad.

Not only has Polanski been hit with a hefty bell, the filmmaker would also have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and remain on house arrest as he awaits the decision of whether or not he'll be extradited to the U.S. for a 1977 for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

"The bail must be wired to a bank account, and the bank must then notify us that it has received the bail," ministry spokesman Folco Galli told the Associated Press. "Nothing happens before that."

Galli also told the AP the full bond payment is usually required in Switzerland, unlike the U.S. where a bail bondsmen provides a percentage of the bond cost to the courts.

Polanski, 76, has been in Swiss custody since being arrested Sept. 26 on a U.S. warrant as he arrived in Zurich to receive a lifetime achievement award at a film festival after being a fugitive for 31 years.

Polanski is the director of such film classics as Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist.