The former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India, Partho Dasgupta, has said in a handwritten statement to Mumbai Police that he received US$12,000 from Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami for two separate holidays and a total of Rs 40 lakh in over three years, for manipulating ratings in favour of the news channel, according to the supplementary chargesheet filed in the TRP scam case, a report in Indian Express stated.