Polanski's extradition to be decided early 2010

London (ANI): The final decision on Roman Polanski"s extradition to the US will be taken in January next year, say Swiss authorities. The Chinatown director faces sentence for having illegal sex with a teenager in the late 1970s and is currently under house arrest in Switzerland.

Polanski had fled the US in 1978 just before he was about to be sentenced. And now Polanski"s fate will be decided soon. "A decision on the extradition of Roman Polanski will be rendered at the beginning of next year," the Daily Express quoted Folco Galli, spokesman for the Federal Justice Ministry, as saying.