Polish prosecutors have questioned filmmaker Roman Polanski on Thursday in connection with a US arrest warrant for sex offences committed by him.
Polanski has been on the American police's wanted list since 1978, after he escaped from the country before the authorities could sentence him for having sex with 13-year old Samantha Geimer.
The director of "China Town" and "Tess" was released by prosecutors in Krakow, southern Poland after questioning.
"Roman Polanski said he would comply with all requests made by prosecutors in this case and provided his address. Prosecutors therefore decided not to arrest him in connection with a possible US extradition request," a Polish justice ministry spokesman, Mateusz Martyniuk, said on Thursday, reports BBC citing AFP.
The Polish government said that the United States had asked the Polish prosecutor general to arrest Polanski until he could be extradited.
The Polish prosecutor general had said in 2010 that extraditing Polanski was not possible as a long time had passed since he committed the crime.
However, Martyniuk disagreed saying that his extradition was still possible, as "the statute of limitations does not apply to US requests".
He added that since the U.S. authorizes had not put forward an extradition request, Polanski was free to travel anywhere.
Polanski was charged by Los Angeles Police in 1977 for sex offenses including rape and sodomy, before he agreed to a plea deal. However, he escaped from the country the day before he was to be sentenced fearing that the Judge hearing the case may overrule the deal and sentence him.
Last year, Samantha Geimer, Polanski's victim, published a book titled "The Girl: A Life Lived in the Shadow of Roman Polanski", which tells her account of the incident.
Geimer, who is now 51, said that she does not hold any hatred for Polanski and that she has finally forgiven him.
"My family never asked that Polanski be punished. We just wanted the legal machine to stop," Geimer said, reports The Guardian.
