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BERN, Switzerland – After more than two months in a Swiss jail, Roman Polanski will be sited under house arrest at his Alpine lodge on Friday, authorities said.

The 76-year-old executive must defer in the house and abrasion an electronic bangle as officials decide whether to return him to the U.S. for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old teenager, the authorities said.

Polanski will be transferred on Friday to Gstaad,” said Folco Galli, the Swiss Justice Ministry spokesman. He said the filmmaker could be in his home by early daylight.

Galli said Wednesday that he would not criticism farther pending Polanski was delivered to the cottage.

The boss of such burst classics as “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Chinatown” and “The Pianist” won a surety last week yielding him bond, but was being detained by authorities until he rewarded the detailed $4.5 million demanded by square. Swiss values disagree from countries such as the United States where security bondsmen often transmit a percentage of the calculate.

Polanski has been in Swiss arrest since being arrested Sept. 26 on a U.S. warrant as he indoors in Zurich to welcome an existence achievement gift at a video festival. Authorities in Los Angeles want him returned to be sentenced after 31 because a fugitive.

He has been detained at a jail in Winterthur, near Zurich, where recent visitors have included his Swiss lawyer and the French common diplomat. Nevertheless it was vague if he will be transferred directly form Winterthur to Gstaad, or taken where, else first to be fitted with the electronic monitoring means.

Polanski was primarily accused of raping the 13-year-old girl after plying her with champagne and a Quaalude pill during a modeling shoot in 1977. He was indicted on six crime counts, plus rape by use of drugs, toddler molestation and sodomy, but he pleaded guilty to the minor control of unlawful sexual intercourse.

In talk, the decide agreed to plunge the lingering charges and sent him to prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation. The evaluator released Polanski after 42 time, but the think said he was available to send him back to perform out the 90 existence.

The filmmaker fled the U.S. on Feb. 1, 1978, the day he was to be formally sentenced. He has lived since then in France, which does not return its citizens.

Polanski claims that the U.S. guess and prosecutors acted improperly in his task. His attorneys will contend before the California appeals patio in December that the charges should be dismissed.