WHAT IF?

WHAT IF?: ON JUNE 26th Brazilian police issued an arrest warrant for Natan Donadon. Two days later the fugitive congressman turned himself in and was carted off to jail in Brasília, making him the first lawmaker in the country in more than three decades to be locked up while serving his mandate. Mr Donadon had been found guilty in 2010 of embezzling 8.4m reais ($3.6m) of public money by faking contracts with a shell advertising firm between 1995 and 1998, while he was working for the legislature in the northern state of Rondônia. But since then his lawyers filed appeal after appeal, until finally, no more were possible.?