Polish officials say that they have received a formal request from Los Angeles prosecutors for the extradition of filmmaker Roman Polanski. He is still wanted in the U.S. for 1977 charges of sex with a minor.
Mateusz Martyniuk, a spokesman for the prosecutor-general, confirmed to the Associated Press that it did receive the request from LA prosecutors. The case is now being handled in Krakow, where Polanski is hoping to make his next film.
Polish prosecutors did interview Polanski in October, but they decided against arresting him and waited for an official U.S. extradition request. However, one of Polanski’s Polish lawyers told Reuters that they believe nothing has changed between now and the October decision.
Polanski did plead guilty in 1977 on charges related to sex with a 13-year-old girl. He did serve 42 days under psychiatric testing in prison, but fled under the belief that the judge on the case would extend his 90-day plea bargain. His lawyers in the U.S. recently unsuccessfully tried to have the case dismissed because of alleged prosecutorial misconduct.
Polanski was put under house arrest in Switzerland in 2009, but authorities there ultimately decided not to extradite him to the U.S.
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