CURITIBA : Brazil's leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva served the first day of a 12-year prison sentence for corruption on Sunday, but was already -
Hoping for a way out through the courts this week in a drama gripping the country ahead of presidential elections.
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His cell is located in the federal police building that serves as the base of operation ''Car Wash'' , Brazil's wide ranging anti-graft investigation that brought him down.
Although Brazil's recent presidents have often ended up in trouble - impeached, felled by a coup and even one suicide - Lula is the first to have been convicted and locked up.
Lulu was found guilty last year of accepting a luxury apartment as a bribe from a construction company and is the biggest scalp so far of the Car Wash Probe.
He insists on his innocence and says he was framed to stop him from running in October presidential elections in which polls show him as the frontrunner.
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