Interprovincial Commission


The Interprovincial Commission is a governing body of Cosa Nostra. It gathered only to deliberate important decisions about the Cosa Nostra interests between several provinces in the same territory that involved other crime families.

History

The first "Interprovincial Commission" was created in '50s by the boss of Trapani Andrea Fazio, but it was dissolved after the beginning of the First Mafia War in 1963. Then it was recreated in 1975 on the proposal of Giuseppe Calderone had to participate in the commission. These delegates imposed the prohibition to execute kidnapping in Sicily in order to stop extortion abductions carried out by Corleone clan led by Leggio.
According to the pentito Antonino Calderone, at the beginning the "Regione" meetings occurred monthly in one of the several provinces, but hereafter they occurred always at the Michele Greco's farmstead in Ciaculli.
In 1978 Calderone e Di Cristina was killed and the management of the "Commissione interprovinciale" went to Giuseppe Settecasi, but even him was murdered in 1981 during a mafia war in Agrigento province that saw the rising of the boss Carmelo Colletti, who became the new provincial delegate of Agrigento; so the management of the "Commissione interprovinciale" went to Greco.
According to the pentito Antonino Giuffrè, in 1983 there was a meeting in the Caccamo campaign in which several bosses participated: Salvatore Riina, Bernardo Provenzano, Michele Greco, Bernardo Brusca, Nitto Santapaola's brother, Colletti, Giuseppe "Piddu" Madonia and some mafiosi of Trapani province. In that meeting it was decided that the management of the "Commissione interprovinciale" went directly to Riina.