Its very possible, though its not common, you will hardly see that the mastermind was the one filing for a report on any assault, except for hardened criminals, one will be more conscious of the events like this that could brought about accusation coming as an allegation against, if we don't have anything to proof ourself right or innocent, we may take others wrath of law for being ignorant.
The only thing I think will make someone who has masterminded a crime to want to report the crime as f he wasn't is probably because he or she may have probably think they have done their due diligence so nobody can trace it back to them or when they know they will be at the first point of accusation to the crime which has been created and as a result they want to create the report first