New Polanski bail offer to include lots of cash: lawyer

The French lawyer for director Roman Polanski, who is waiting in a Swiss jail for a decision on his extradition to the U.S. on a 32-year-old sex case, says a new bail offer of "very, very significant" cash will be made.

Herve Temime told France-Info radio Sunday the bail offer will be filed Monday, just days after Swiss authorities rejected a previous offer on Friday.

Officials have said the first offer did not include cash.

Swiss authorities also said they consider the 76-year-old filmmaker a high flight risk.

The Oscar-winning director behind The Pianist, Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown was detained at Zurich's airport on Sept. 26 as per a U.S. arrest warrant. He was supposed to attend a film festival there and receive a lifetime achievement honour.

The French citizen fled the U.S. in 1978, a year after he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.Hehas lived in self-imposed exile until his arrest.

Polanski's lawyers have claimed misconduct by the now-deceased judge who had agreedto aplea bargain and then reneged on it.

They have petitioned the U.S. Appeals Court in California to overturn a lower tribunal's refusal to throw out his case.