A UK peace-building charity organises a workshop for local community leaders in a Middle Eastern country. It books a training room at a hotel, which the charity has used before and that it knows is regularly used by UN agencies and other international organisations for similar events. The workshop is a success.

The UK charity receives a final invoice for the hotel but when making payment, the transaction is blocked by their bank. The charity investigates to understand why the payment cannot be processed only to discover that the hotel chain is owned by a company on the UK financial sanctions list. In making previous payments to the hotel, the charity has inadvertently breached UK sanctions.