During the controversial 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand, he was second-in-command of one of the riot units, Red Squad.
He also started dabbling in business opportunities by running a private security firm from the watchhouse, with his wife as principal partner, and employing up to 70 people.
[6] After being commissioned in 1985, he served in various roles including Inspector in charge of the Auckland police criminal intelligence unit.
After forming his own party, Meurant retained his executive office and continued to be a member of the Cabinet Committees for Commerce, Industry and Environment and Treaty Issues.
[8] In August 1995, Meurant refused to comply with a directive from the Prime Minister to relinquish a position that he had as a director of a Russian-owned bank (PROK) domiciled in Vanuatu and was subsequently dismissed from the Executive.
If it was legal to obtain and use drugs in this country, perhaps we could spend the money saved in policing expenditure, running educative programmes and medical clinics to assist those who lack the strength to resist temptation.
Between 1999 and 2004 Meurant was engaged by parliamentary services as a part-time adviser on agriculture, forestry, fishing and racing taxation policy to Winston Peters, leader of New Zealand First.
[citation needed] In 2002, Meurant was convicted of impersonating police, common assault and inconsiderate driving following an altercation with a truck driver on the Desert Road.
In 2003 the Primary Industries Select Committee conducted an enquiry into allegations of impropriety involving the principals of Simunovich Fisheries Ltd, Winston Peters and Meurant.
[citation needed] Contemporaneously, defamation proceedings against TVNZ and The New Zealand Herald were commenced by Simunovich Fisheries.
[17] In November 2012, Meurant was elected to the inaugural board of Focus NZ,[18] as Vice-President,[19] a New Zealand list-only political party aimed at the rural sector and primary industry producers and exporters.
[18] 2013 Published two novels based on real life: The Syrian Connection – which exposes American interference in transfer of money for non-sanctioned exports and how a Kiwi and Russian KGB agent subverted the blockade.
In February 2018, he was elected to the Electorate Executive Committee of Hon Judith Collins, NZ National Party Member of Parliament.
It's about how the adult lives of three childhood friends collide: one becomes a ruthless detective inspector; another a corrupt politician and the third, a gang member.
[22] During the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand, Meurant joined several businessmen and former politicians including former National and ACT leader Don Brash in establishing a company called Covax-NZR Limited to import Russia's untested Gam-COVID-Vac (also known as Sputnik V) vaccine into the country.
By late August 2020, they had submitted paperwork through the Russian Embassy to establish supply and distribution arrangements to import the vaccine.
Meurant believes the police abrogated the basic legal rights of defendants to "no detention without charge" and "to be taken before a court as soon as possible".