More like he called his secretary in and said please witness and notarize this. Who is this"..she asks. OH, its JD Jones. OOOK no problem.
When you have a relationship of years this is the way it is done. I even had my lawyer in the states create a POA to sell a "specific" property while I was here in the DR. We have known each other for ever. So, there are many ways: Legal, not legal, maybe, slow, fast and whatever.