Fiji, Sept. 22 -- Pacific governments need to strengthen proceeds-of-crime laws, identify the real owners behind companies and share financial intelligence across borders to disrupt the money flows sustaining organised crime, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says.

UNODC Pacific Regional Anti-Corruption Adviser Marie Pegie Cauchois told PACNEWS at the Pre-Pacific Media Summit workshop on Climate Change and Corruption in Savusavu that governments must focus not only on drug seizures but on the profits generated by criminal networks.

She said the scale of drug trafficking through the Pacific was difficult to determine, but the size of some seizures and wider regional trends showed the growing challenge.

"We don't have the figures....