Livedoor Co. asked an online marriage information company suspected of playing a part in its alleged accounting fraud to provide a fictitious profit of 120 million yen to a Livedoor group company in 2004, a Livedoor e-mail message obtained Tuesday by Kyodo News showed.
The message was written by a Livedoor official around the time Livedoor is suspected of dressing up its financial figures for the year ending in September 2004.
"For the September book-closing, please have CUez Net Co. record these sales as described below," the internal e-mail message said.