Directors of CA, the software company that was at the centre of a $2.2bn accounting fraud earlier this decade, are set to come under renewed fire from shareholders today over their failure to prevent a continuing stream of accounting lapses.

At the centre of the latest storm is Alfonse D'Amato, a former New York senator who has been a director since 1999, making him the only remaining person to have been on the board in 2000 and 2001, when the fraud was committed. Sanjay Kumar, former chief executive officer, pleaded guilty in April to securities fraud and obstruction of justice over the affair.