Yes, dosens of times.
I grew up in eastern europe and things work differently there.
Oftentimes the cops would fish for bribes. Cops would pick you up on the street/stop you in traffic and search you/your car/whatever in hopes of finding something to hook onto and escalate the situation further and put you in a legally difficult situation.
Then they would generously offer that they can make it all go away if somebody from your family comes and brings X amount of money.
This didn’t happen just to me, in most countries of the former eastern block that’s just a fact of life.
A feeling of power, a sense of pleasure by ruining it for someone. The reasons are many, and each more despicable than the other.