New UNODC Report Reveals Scale Of South-East Asia’s Ever More Interconnected Criminal EconomySouth-East Asia’s criminal ecosystem has undergone a fundamental restructuring, according to a new report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The report, titled An Interconnected Criminal Ecosystem: Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment for Southeast Asia 2026, reveals how criminals are weaving these different types of crime into a single, shared financial and operational infrastructure that is allowing for an increasingly thriving crime ecosystem. “The scale and complexity of this expanding organized crime economy are outpacing existing responses, which were not structured to address such sophisticated criminal activity.” The other triangle: Sulu-CelebesDrug trafficking remains a significant threat across South-East Asia, with the Golden Triangle still the region’s main production hub. But beyond the Golden Triangle, the Sulu and Celebes Seas Triangle has emerged as an increasingly important smuggling corridor for transnational organized groups from within East and South-East Asia, and beyond.