Polanski to be released on bail to Swiss chalet
Fugitive film director Roman Polanski will be released on a $4.5 million cash bail to house arrest at his Swiss chalet with electronic monitoring.
The Swiss Justice Ministry announced it would not challenge the ruling of a Zurich court that granted Polanski’s second application for bail.
Polanski will have to surrender his passports and other ID and have electronic surveillance installed at his house, a sun-drenched wooden chalet perched on a grassy mountainside in Gstaad. Its name: “Milky Way.”
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Justice said in a statement: “He will be under house arrest and has also committed to wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet.”
Polanski is wanted in Los Angeles on 30-year-old charges of unlawful sex with a minor.
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