MUMBAI: After the Swiss Criminal Court granted him a $4.5m bail on 25 November, filmmaker Roman Polanski will leave prison and return to his Swiss chalet immediately.

He is considered to be a high flight risk by the authorities and will remain under electronic tagging, effectively placing him under house at his Alpine residence.

The 76-year-old Polanski will stay in Switzerland while authorities take a decision whether to extradite him to the US to face a court in connection to a series of charges that go back to 1997.

Polanksi‘s lawyers requested for a cash bail against his Paris apartment. It is understood that the LA County district attorney‘s office didn‘t want to comment on the development.

Polanski was arrested and taken into custody by Swiss authorities on 26 September after he arrived in Zurich to receive a lifetime achievement award.

Polanski is understood to have been working from prison on The Ghost that is set to have its world premiere in Berlin in February next.