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This is looking more and more like a smuggling operation gone bad all the time...
From Wikipedia:
According to some estimations [1], cost of Polonium-210 used to kill Litvinenko is around £20 million ($ 39 million)[129], which would make it the most (?) expensive murder in history[citation needed]. However, this estimation seems to be based on retail prices of commercially-availible demonstration radiation sources (such as those sold by United Nuclear, for example), which contain very little quantities of Po-210 (one would need about 50 000 pieces to get the dose used in this poisoning). For more plausible, and much lower estimations, see above: the cost could be as low as only $ 7000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko_poisoning