Leo Emil Wanta, born 1940, is an American businessman who claims[citation neeed] to be the Reagan-appointed trustee of potentially trillions of dollars, the result of an arbitrage scheme to sink the Soviet economy. The numbers claimed exceed the GDP of the Soviet economy at the time, and the Soviet Ruble was a non-convertible currency. He was president of AmeriChina Global Management Group Inc., an arms exporting firm based in Appleton, Wisconsin. In 1988, he attempted to sell thousands of Browning 9mm pistols to Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega.