Lucio Urtubia Jimenez

Lucio Urtubia Jiménez (born 1931 in Cascante, Navarre) is a Basque anarchist and printmaker famous for his practice of expropriative anarchism. At times compared to Robin Hood, Urtubia carried out bank robberies and forgeries throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

He is most notable for the forgery of Citibank travelers’ checks in 1977. This criminal undertaking included 8,000 copies of 25 checks worth 100 dollars each and damaged the bank so severely that its stock price fell. The stolen money was used in the aid of guerrilla movements in Latin America and Europe.