On a political side I would say that people need to be extremely careful because there is an awful lot of naivety but I will answer the question first, Hamad Al Thani was one of the most influential politician in the middle east, so I would assume that globally he has more gravitas than Ratcliffe especially since I suspect that he also exfiltrated a fair amount of money. But people need to remember something that they seem to willingly ignore or brush aside, the most influential people outside of political leaders are men like Ratcliffe, leaders in the petrochemical, energy, pharmaceutical industries and banking those people are the main source of corruption, political manipulation, dubious laws and regulations making in the world and in particular in our western countries, someone like Ratcliffe has more political power than most members of any british/french government, he has more influence on the EU or similar organization than most members of parliaments or political boards.
He is of course not the only one, you can extend that to all the owners, CEOs of leading companies in similar fields but one of the most ridiculous thing that has been said in this thread and that people have generally ignored is the idea that x is only a businessman, that businessman has governments in his pockets, has entire political parties doing his biddings because he is among people that paid them, generally under the guise of nebulous consultancy jobs.
