November 2012, Meurant was elected to the inaugural board of Focus NZ, as Vice-President, a New Zealand list-only political party aimed at the rural sector and primary industry producers and exporters. 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. Sex, Power & Politics draws on the author's exposure to a culture in New Zealand parliament. In July 2016, Meurant was appointed Honorary Consul for the Kingdom of Morocco at the Honorary Consulate office in Auckland, New Zealand. In February 2018, he was elected to the Electorate Executive Committee of Hon Judith Collins, NZ National Party Member of Parliament. He travelled to the Southern Provinces of Morocco Western Sahara with Collins' husband to look at business opportunities. He was a member of the Executive for 12 months, deciding not to stand for re-selection in 2019. Meurant also decided not to renew his National Party membership at the same time. Meurant stood for the Gisborne mayoralty in the 2019 New Zealand local elections. Of the three candidates, he came last. In March 2020, Meurant launched his third novel: "Out of the Inferno". 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. 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. Concerns about police culture In 2011, Meurant was interviewed in the documentary Operation 8, which was strongly critical of the anti-terror raids in Ruatoki in 2007. In it, he described the negative aspects of police culture and the actions that stemmed from it. In Sept 2011, Meurant penned a damning critique of the NZ police in North & South magazine. The article describes police culture in disparaging terms likening it to a forest in which new recruits get lost. Meurant discusses a number of well known cases such as the Crewe murders and says it was more than just a couple of